Microsoft Publisher 2010 (PC DVD)

Product Details

• Item Weight: 27 g
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• ASIN: B0039L6FRE
• Release Date: 15 Jun 2010
  

By : Microsoft
Price : £89.99

Product Description

With Publisher 2010, you can easily communicate your message in a variety of publication types, saving you time and money. Whether you are creating brochures, newsletters, postcards, greeting cards, or e-mail newsletters, you can deliver high-quality results without having graphic design experience.


Get the job done right the first time with Publisher 2010. Click to enlarge.

Easily fine-tune every picture to help your publication look its absolute best. Click to enlarge.

Give your text the appearance of expert typesetting with new OpenType typography. Click to enlarge.
Get the job done right the first time with Publisher 2010.
Create visually compelling publicationsPublisher 2010 provides a broad range of new and improved tools that help you look like a design genius and create content that's sure to impress.

• Use improved picture-editing tools--including the ability to pan, zoom, and crop your images and picture placeholders--that make it a snap to replace images while preserving the layout of your page. Easily fine-tune every picture to help your publication look its absolute best.
• Design and reorganise pages like a pro with new object alignment technology. This technology provides visual guides to help you effortlessly align and position your content, but it always leaves the final layout up to you.
• Create dynamic publications in very little time when you insert and customise prebuilt building blocks of content, both built-in and from the Publisher community, directly from Publisher 2010. Choose from an array of page parts--such as sidebars and stories--as well as calendars, borders, advertisements, and more.
• Give your text the appearance of expert typesetting with new OpenType typography. Publisher 2010 provides support for the ligatures, stylistic sets, and other professional typography features available in many OpenType fonts. Use built-in or custom OpenType fonts to create text as impactful as images with just a couple of clicks.¹

Manage your publications better with easy-to-use toolsIt's much easier to create and manage your publications when you can work the way you want.

• The extraordinary new integrated print experience in Publisher 2010 enables you to view a full-page print preview with a host of page layout tools and adjustable print settings. The new print experience is just one of many features available from the new Microsoft Office Backstage view. Backstage view replaces the traditional File menu to provide a centralised, organised space for all of your publication management tasks.
• The improved, customisable Ribbon is now available in Publisher to make easily accessible the commands you need most. Create custom tabs or even customise built-in tabs. With Publisher 2010, you're in control.

Share your publications with confidenceWhen it's time to share your publication, Publisher 2010 leaves nothing to guesswork.

• Compile, edit, and manage your customer or contacts list directly in Publisher, using the easy and efficient Mailings tab on the Publisher 2010 Ribbon.
• Access the Design Checker from the new Backstage view to automatically review your publication for many common errors before you share it. Get options for fixing them quickly and easily. Then, return to Backstage view when the publication is ready to go and save it to whatever format you need for easy sharing--from PDF or XPS to a range of image formats, such as JPEG or PNG.

Whether you're working on your monthly newsletter, designing a new postcard, creating greeting cards, or developing a marketing campaign for your business, Publisher 2010 helps you create the content you need more quickly, with more flexibility, and with better results.
¹ The new typography tools may be used only with OpenType fonts that have the ability to support them, such as Gabriola, Candara, Cambria, Calibri, and others
Microsoft Publisher 2010 - Complete package - 1 PC - DVD - Win - English - 32/64
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Microsoft Publisher 2010 (PC DVD)

 

Technical Details

• With Microsoft Publisher 2010, you can easily communicate your message in a variety of publication types, saving you time and money
• Easily swap out pictures while preserving the look and layout of your publication with new and improved photo-editing tools
• Transform and customise ordinary text into fine typography with new OpenType fonts
• Preview built-in templates, customise content with ease and review for design and layout mistakes before printing
• Align objects, images or text boxes easier with improved object alignment technology and guides

Customer Reviews

This iteration of Publisher finally get's Microsoft's 'ribbon' (the replacement for the toolbar that first appeared in the rest of the Office suite (barring Outlook and Publisher itself) in 2007. That's something you'll either love or hate, but with 2010's version, the ribbons are all customisable, so you can make it suit the way you work.
There's a new 'Page Navigation' pane, which is helpful in getting an overview of the document (and rearranging pages if you want), and Publisher's photo-editing is - at last - the same as Word's (since 2007 small documents actually could be made to look better in Word!).
The greatest reason to choose Publisher as well as Word is when you're making documents to send to a commercial printer, when you can choose the "Save for Commercial Printer" command - outputting pdfs at a higher resolution than the Office/Word 'print to pdf' command. It's also better with bleeds (commercial printers all want a 3mm or 5mm 'bleed' around your document, and you'll need to see how it looks with the bleed.
Overall, it's a good, mid-range dtp program that has been - finally - updated properly. I found it a worthwhile upgrade from Publisher 2007. In terms of market 'pitch', I now much prefer Publisher to Serif (the look and feel is more modern, I find the program quicker in use, and it has a quick learning curve). For high-end use I'd still look to Adobe, but it should suit the small-medium size business perfectly. Amazon's price is very good too (undercutting Microsoft's download price at time of writing)

So far I've designed only a couple of posters on it and it worked just fine. I'll post a comment if I encounter any problems with the book design project I have to work on next.
I've been a PagePlus user for years but Publisher has caught up on what I consider essential features, such as generating PDFs for commercial printing. More seriously, I've had a couple of annoying glitches with PagePlus X3 and X4 (highlighting text and moving text boxes; so far Serif technical department can only say that they are aware there is an issue). My hope is that the Microsoft product is going to be totally compatible with Windows 7 64 bit version. We'll see but it looks very promising so far.
Previous reviewers are understandably disappointed about the lack of web design, which should have been flagged in publicity, but I think Microsoft are right to separate web design from DTP as they're so different. It must have been tempting to leave it there as an extra but I think it would have unbalanced the DTP concept. I take the point that Scribus is free and a professional, continually evolving product but I've briefly tried it and I found it rather intimidating, it reminded me of Quark Express. Publisher suits my un-technical, visual approach to design. I prefer the context sensitive ribbon to going through menus (a concept I've already enjoyed using in Serif products) and it keeps throwing up little extras, like the ability to translate text. I'm sure I'll find a use for that. The alignment guides and the way you can get text to expand to fill a text box speed up work too.
I might have deducted one star for the lack of a manual but you can soon navigate to the specific help you're after. Ideally I would prefer to sit down with a cup of coffee and browse through a paper manual. There's a PDF introduction to Publisher but, as far as I can discover, no full PDF manual is included.

 

Microsoft Publisher 2010 (PC DVD)