Major 07 rant - top fold template appears on screen as side-fold

This is REALLY beginning to do my nut in because it makes placement of
objects (and visualisation of the finished project when printed) nigh on
impossible. I thought Publisher was supposed to be WYSIWYG, but I have spent
THREE DAYS (not to mention a lot of wasted paper and ink) trying to get a
single-fold, top-fold card to print correctly but, because it appears on
screen as side fold (and, yes, it did cross my mind to try a bit of 'reverse
psychology' but side-fold cards do, correctly, appear as side-fold).

I am currently using a trial version, which expires the first week of next
month and, whilst there are some new features which I rather like (the colour
picker and the new Pantone tool to name but 2) this is a deal breaker for me.
I've been using Publisher since practically the day dot, but I shan't be
converting the trial, I'll go back to using '03.

I have installed the '07 SP1, but it's not fixed this issue.

I've always used Publisher because I found it very easy to use but I think
I'll go back to using PagePlus if this cannot be rectified.

I'm running it under XP Home SP2, if that makes any difference.

Cheers for any helpful suggestions (and if anyone says 'rotate your
monitor' I'll clobber 'em! ;o) evil grin)

P.T.

Miss P.T. wrote:
This is REALLY beginning to do my nut in because it makes placement of
objects (and visualisation of the finished project when printed) nigh on
impossible. I thought Publisher was supposed to be WYSIWYG, but I have spent
THREE DAYS (not to mention a lot of wasted paper and ink) trying to get a
single-fold, top-fold card to print correctly but, because it appears on
screen as side fold (and, yes, it did cross my mind to try a bit of 'reverse
psychology' but side-fold cards do, correctly, appear as side-fold).

It's a display bug. In addition, pages 1 and 2 will be on the same
printed page, and pages 3 and 4 will be on the same printed page. They
will be one-above-the-other. The upper pages will be flipped, most of
the time. Sometimes not.

I've opened up a bug at
https://connect.microsoft.com/feedba...587&SiteID=227,
which you can vote on and validate.

--
Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher
http://ed.mvps.org

"Ed Bennett" wrote:

Miss P.T. wrote:
This is REALLY beginning to do my nut in because it makes placement of
objects (and visualisation of the finished project when printed) nigh on
impossible. I thought Publisher was supposed to be WYSIWYG, but I have spent
THREE DAYS (not to mention a lot of wasted paper and ink) trying to get a
single-fold, top-fold card to print correctly but, because it appears on
screen as side fold (and, yes, it did cross my mind to try a bit of 'reverse
psychology' but side-fold cards do, correctly, appear as side-fold).

It's a display bug. In addition, pages 1 and 2 will be on the same
printed page, and pages 3 and 4 will be on the same printed page. They
will be one-above-the-other. The upper pages will be flipped, most of
the time. Sometimes not.

I've opened up a bug at
https://connect.microsoft.com/feedba...587&SiteID=227,
which you can vote on and validate.

Cheers, Ed, but this rather begs the question "how in Hades was this allowed
to go into production?" Did *NOBODY* spot this at the testing stage?! This is
a bug that shouldn't have slipped past Alpha - nevermind Beta - testing!

Miss P.T.

Miss P.T. wrote:
Cheers, Ed, but this rather begs the question "how in Hades was this allowed
to go into production?" Did *NOBODY* spot this at the testing stage?! This is
a bug that shouldn't have slipped past Alpha - nevermind Beta - testing!

That's not the last of the really irritating and retrospectively obvious
bugs. There were very few beta testers concentrating on Publisher; those
that were were (for some reason) focusing on web features. I really wish
now I'd been able to test more, but my degree has to come first, sadly.

Been a long time since I've seen you round these parts - how are things?

--
Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher
http://ed.mvps.org

Is this who I think it is? :-)

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375


"Ed Bennett" wrote in message
...
Miss P.T. wrote:
Cheers, Ed, but this rather begs the question "how in Hades was this
allowed to go into production?" Did *NOBODY* spot this at the testing
stage?! This is a bug that shouldn't have slipped past Alpha - nevermind
Beta - testing!

That's not the last of the really irritating and retrospectively obvious
bugs. There were very few beta testers concentrating on Publisher; those
that were were (for some reason) focusing on web features. I really wish
now I'd been able to test more, but my degree has to come first, sadly.

Been a long time since I've seen you round these parts - how are things?

--
Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher
http://ed.mvps.org

What happened to the Mac?

--
Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/
http://msauer.mvps.org/
news://msnews.microsoft.com

"JoAnn Paules" wrote in message
...
Is this who I think it is? :-)

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375


"Ed Bennett" wrote in message
...
Miss P.T. wrote:
Cheers, Ed, but this rather begs the question "how in Hades was this allowed
to go into production?" Did *NOBODY* spot this at the testing stage?! This
is a bug that shouldn't have slipped past Alpha - nevermind Beta - testing!

That's not the last of the really irritating and retrospectively obvious
bugs. There were very few beta testers concentrating on Publisher; those that
were were (for some reason) focusing on web features. I really wish now I'd
been able to test more, but my degree has to come first, sadly.

Been a long time since I've seen you round these parts - how are things?

--
Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher
http://ed.mvps.org