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I recently completed a 52 page catalog, with pictures and text, using MS
Word.  When I called the printer for a quote, they told me I needed to
hand them a disk with pagemaker, quark, or similar file, but they could
not get the right color off of Word.  Is there a way to convert Word
files to pagemaker files?

Thanks for any help.

Arye Zacks

Sorry, there's no magic bullet way to convert Word docs into PageMaker
(or Quark) docs. The process is strictly manual labor.

You might have some luck converting the Word doc into Adobe Acrobat
format (pdf). Many printers are now accepting these files for output
and I believe there is a tricky but possible way to convert a Word
doc. Though I've never needed to go through the process.

On Tue, 24 Aug 1999 21:20:16 GMT, Arye Zacks

J. Costello

If you want to use your word-doc and make a pdf-file from that, you'll have
to find a printer that can guide you through making the pdf-file. The
printer or Service Bureau also has to be able to make film directly from
pdf-files, i.e. he has to have a Postscript level 3 RIP on his imagesetter.
Maybe you could check with a few SB's or printers, if they can do that.
In order to make a proper pdf-file, you have to have Acrobat Distiller.
Otherwise, you will have to make the whole thing from scratch again.
Also please check the quality of your pictures (scannings). They have to be
scanned in a resolution of 300 dpi in the size you use them in your
document, if you want a fair quality.

Good luck.

Elsebeth

As far as I know, there is no way to get color separations out of MS
Word or PDF files. (Somebody correct me if I'm wrong here.)

You can import your text into PageMaker, but you will have to format the
pages.

Another thought: If you want to use spot color in your MS Word and the
graphics/text which are color are not touching anything else, you could
print everything out as a black plate and have your printer hand strip
in the parts that are color.

You'd have to check with your printer on the tolerance for close
stripping, and you could be charged quite a bit for the service, but it
is a possibility.

Quote:> I recently completed a 52 page catalog, with pictures and text, using MS
> Word.  When I called the printer for a quote, they told me I needed to
> hand them a disk with pagemaker, quark, or similar file, but they could
> not get the right color off of Word.  Is there a way to convert Word
> files to pagemaker files?
> Thanks for any help.
> Arye Zacks

Most should be able to accept PostScript files.

You'll need to get the Adobe PS Printer driver (see www.adobe.com)
which should then be setup to save to file rather than printing.

Of course you are probably using TrueType fonts which some people don't
like ! There are some settings in the driver to convert these but you
will need to get their advice ...

Quark or Pagemaker should be able to import Word files but this is
basically done page by page and may need a lot of manual adjustment.

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Another warning for corporate MIS departments and small businesses that word
processors are not the be-all to end-all.

Quote:> I recently completed a 52 page catalog, with pictures and text, using MS
> Word.  When I called the printer for a quote, they told me I needed to
> hand them a disk with pagemaker, quark, or similar file, but they could
> not get the right color off of Word.  Is there a way to convert Word
> files to pagemaker files?

> Thanks for any help.

> Arye Zacks

Thank you! I had a nightmare project in which the client only knew
Microsoft Office and kept accusing me of using inferior software because I
was doing a 48-page report for them using PageMaker, Illustrator, and
DeltaGraph.

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Quote:> I recently completed a 52 page catalog, with pictures and text, using
MS
> Word.  When I called the printer for a quote, they told me I needed to
> hand them a disk with pagemaker, quark, or similar file, but they
could
> not get the right color off of Word.  Is there a way to convert Word
> files to pagemaker files?

> Thanks for any help.

> Arye Zacks

I recently created text within Microsoft Word 98 for Macintosh and then
import the document into PageMaker 6.5.2 for Macintosh.  First, make
sure you have the Microsoft Word 97/98 Import Filter 2.0 installed
(http://www.adobe.com/supportservice/custsupport/LIBRARY/4fee.htm).
Once you do you will then be able to have PageMaker understand all of
your Microsoft Word documents.  This has worked for me, hope this helps.

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