Numbering pages in publisher

[mhopson]

I don't know whether this is the right place to asked this, but i'll anyway and hope someone knows. I publishs a  book, ordered some books to have for signing. I trying to add a signature page in front of book. I'm using microsoft publisher. I want first and second page blank and numbering to start on page 3. HELP anyone.

[June Eliza James]

Hi mhopson,
The first two pages 'NUMBER' them as: i and ii and then Page one will be where you want it.
ALSO when you create your 'Preview' remember that these first two pages count as page one and page two when preparing your Preview.

Hope this helps

Eliza

[kevinlomas]

First of all. No book has a special page just for signing. They are signed in any blank space, usually at the front, and the first 2 pages (at least) should be blank anyway, totally blank.
Second. Publisher is not a good tool for creating files in to be uploaded to Lulu.
Third. Headers, Footers, and any numbering should not start until the actual 'story' text starts.

To achieve such things you need to use Page Breaks and Section Breaks, etc.

It always puzzles me that people do not know this because all they have to do is open books and look.

[burbette123]

I agree with Kevin that publisher files cannot be uploaded to Lulu but you can obtain a free converter to a Pdf file and print to that. I make all my books using Publisher and I have made 15 so far.

[kevinlomas]

Publisher seems to be a bit 'overkill' for what you need to stick on pages for a book. :-)
Having said that, a few people even own full expensive Adobe suites of tools! I suppose because they are 'industry standard', but it's not as if we are creating daily newspapers is it?

You do make nice books though Liz.

http://www.kevinlomas.net/

[June Eliza James]

Hi and thanks Kevin, I'm still getting used to the fact that this last book is 'selling' got four more orders today...Absolutely brilliant; not me; the experience!

Publisher to layout a book. IF pictures are ready to just to slide into place, THEN I right click.>Save page as picture>jpg>change to 300dpi >name the page> save. When all pages are saved, bind all in one PDF.
I found Publisher is much less greedy for memory as Photoshop or Indesign for preliminary layouts.

Whatever works to get the desired effect is good enough for me and I'm always open to TRY and if improvements result I use it and say Ta,

Eliza

[kevinlomas]

That method sounds very complex compared to doing it in Word :-)

[June Eliza James]

Hi Kevin,

It sounds like it is but one cannot drag text boxes and or graphics (pictures and captions) off the page and have them on one side to enable repositioning  either on the same page or other pages as needed, with out having other windows open cluttering up the screen. The only other program outside of the Adobe group that appears to give this freedom is Scrivener, which I had a look at but decided I'd stick to Publisher because I know it works for me.

If Word works for others, why should they need anything else.

Eliza

[kevinlomas]

A long time ago I once had a prog called Pageplus (I think) by a company called GST (who later became GSP). It cost £5 and it could do all of that and far more and it also came with a linked art prog that was amazing (Designworks) not to mention GIF animation tools. It made many modern progs seem very basic, but it would only save under its own suffix and would open nothing else! That was before the internet though and when one was forced to print one's own stuff :-)

[June Eliza James]

Yeah! When Ink for the printer cost more than the cost of an actual printer today!
All those 'old' programs have been spliced and diced into separate programs under different names. It's only the monetary necessity of the 'Big Two' that the computers are now allowed to 'speak' to each other!
Good job we still do so, eh?

Eliza