MS Publisher should troubleshoot document preview panel

Thank you Ed,

That did the trick in more ways than one. It drastically reduced the size of
the file (91kb). AND, it also allowed the file to "Print Preview" both pages.

So, the graphic size was the problem in "Print Preview" not being able to
display that first page!

I subsequently opened the original file again and this time instead of
changing the resolution, I left the resolution unchanged and deleted the
cropped edges of the image, only. This produced the desired result too (1.4
mb)! I was able to Print Preview both pages AND retain a high resolution
printing of the document's image!

Bravo!!!

Many Thanks,
Henri Lamont

"Ed Bennett" wrote:

Henri was very recently heard to
utter:
I wasn't able to send it. It was too large. I don't know why the file
is so big. Perhaps it is because of the graphic I used. At any rate,
since it does print, I'm no longer going to worry about it.

If you don't have it, get Service Pack 1 for Office 2003 from
http://office.microsoft.com/

Then open your document, select a picture. On the Picture toolbar, select
"Compress Pictures"
Select "All pictures in document", "Print", and make sure the bottom two
boxes are checked.
Click OK, Save, and see what size your document comes out now.

--
Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher

Out of curiosity, what was the resolution of the image?

Mike

Henri wrote:

Thank you Ed,

That did the trick in more ways than one. It drastically reduced the size of
the file (91kb). AND, it also allowed the file to "Print Preview" both pages.

So, the graphic size was the problem in "Print Preview" not being able to
display that first page!

I subsequently opened the original file again and this time instead of
changing the resolution, I left the resolution unchanged and deleted the
cropped edges of the image, only. This produced the desired result too (1.4
mb)! I was able to Print Preview both pages AND retain a high resolution
printing of the document's image!

Bravo!!!

Many Thanks,
Henri Lamont

"Ed Bennett" wrote:


Henri was very recently heard to
utter:

I wasn't able to send it. It was too large. I don't know why the file
is so big. Perhaps it is because of the graphic I used. At any rate,
since it does print, I'm no longer going to worry about it.

If you don't have it, get Service Pack 1 for Office 2003 from
http://office.microsoft.com/

Then open your document, select a picture. On the Picture toolbar, select
"Compress Pictures"
Select "All pictures in document", "Print", and make sure the bottom two
boxes are checked.
Click OK, Save, and see what size your document comes out now.

--
Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher

Henri was very recently heard to
utter:
I subsequently opened the original file again and this time instead of
changing the resolution, I left the resolution unchanged and deleted
the cropped edges of the image, only. This produced the desired
result too (1.4 mb)! I was able to Print Preview both pages AND
retain a high resolution printing of the document's image!

Fantastic - thanks for reporting back

It looks like you had an absolutely massive picture in there that you had
cropped down to a very small area in the middle of.

--
Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher

Actually, I took a black and white 1 bit TIFF image and converted it to a 24
bit RGB TIFF color image.

I only used two colors. It was only 3.175" x 3.84917". The resolution was
1200 dpi x 1200 dpi. The image was 54,854,632 bytes.

I only cropped it to 2.0" x 3.5". When I saved just the image back out of
the MS Publisher doc. My Corel Paint program showed that the resolution did
change to 300 dpi x 300 dpi even though I set it to only crop. And the file
size of the image is 4,064,232 bytes.

But, that is still a better image than when I did tell it to change
resolution. Because MS Publisher 2003 seems to do a default 200 dpi
resolution when to check the "change resolution" "Print" gadget.

In view of this analysis it appears that there is a resolution limitation to
MS Publisher's ability to display in "Print Preview."

"Ed Bennett" wrote:

Henri was very recently heard to
utter:
I subsequently opened the original file again and this time instead of
changing the resolution, I left the resolution unchanged and deleted
the cropped edges of the image, only. This produced the desired
result too (1.4 mb)! I was able to Print Preview both pages AND
retain a high resolution printing of the document's image!

Fantastic - thanks for reporting back

It looks like you had an absolutely massive picture in there that you had
cropped down to a very small area in the middle of.

--
Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher

Hi JoAnn. Am raul sebastian laman. Am trying to print a brochure of 4 pages
and wants to know how to print back to back. Thanks for your assistance.

"JoAnn Paules" wrote:

Henri -

Send your file to me at jl dot paules at gmail dot com. Let me see if I get
the same result you get.

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"Henri" wrote in message
...
I am using MS Publisher 2003. The previous post I made still needs an
answer.
Or, is there one?

I have a two page document. Page one does not show up at all in print
preview. Page one has an RGB picture with print overlaid. Page 2 is just
text. It is the only one that shows up in print preview.

Hi JoAnn. Am Raul Sebastian Laman ). Am trying to
print a brochure of 4 pages using a back to back printing. How do I go about
it. Thanks for the assistance.

"JoAnn Paules" wrote:

Henri -

Send your file to me at jl dot paules at gmail dot com. Let me see if I get
the same result you get.

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"Henri" wrote in message
...
I am using MS Publisher 2003. The previous post I made still needs an
answer.
Or, is there one?

I have a two page document. Page one does not show up at all in print
preview. Page one has an RGB picture with print overlaid. Page 2 is just
text. It is the only one that shows up in print preview.

Use the booklet page setup if you are wanting one fold.

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

"raul sebastian laman" wrote in
message ...
Hi JoAnn. Am Raul Sebastian Laman ). Am trying to
print a brochure of 4 pages using a back to back printing. How do I go about
it. Thanks for the assistance.

"JoAnn Paules" wrote:

Henri -

Send your file to me at jl dot paules at gmail dot com. Let me see if I get
the same result you get.

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"Henri" wrote in message
...
I am using MS Publisher 2003. The previous post I made still needs an
answer.
Or, is there one?

I have a two page document. Page one does not show up at all in print
preview. Page one has an RGB picture with print overlaid. Page 2 is just
text. It is the only one that shows up in print preview.