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Because Publisher is a desktop design and publishing application, it provides you to ability to include multiple text flows in a single publication, and programmatically control how those flows are laid out and formatted. Learn how. Read More...
Publisher has a different concept of templates and wizards than other Office programs, such as Word. In Publisher, both terms refer to publication types on which you can base your publications, with important differences: Publication wizards are pre-defined publications that come bundled with Publisher. These publication wizards contain text boxes and other design elements that you can customize, and to which you can add your content, in the publications you create using them. Templates are us Read More...
I got an email the other day from a user who asked if the NewDocument event in Publisher actually worked. It does, but it is a little more complicated than you'd think. Read on. Read More...
Learn how to create and publish web pages using the Publisher 2003 object model. Read More...
Here's something I meant to mention a while back: did you know that when you set a shape's action setting to launch a program, you can pass command line switches to that program? This is something I stumbled across, and there doesn't seem to be any mention Read More...
So, after blogging several times about the Tags functionality in Publisher, I finally took a look in the PowerPoint object model, and guess what I found? However, the tags functionality is implemented a little differently in PowerPoint than in Publisher, Read More...
Here's an interesting quirk in Publisher's object model. It's by design, and it makes sense if you think about it. But it may lead to some unexpected results if you don't take it into account. I didn't, and it did, so I thought I'd point it out. First, Read More...
Read Part 1 here . In the last entry, I showed you how to write a function that creates a separate .jpg file from a picture embedded in a publication. Now, let's finish the job by replacing the embedded picture with a picture linked to the new .jpg file. Read More...
A lot of the time, entries that I post here end up inspiring me so that I expand them into articles that end up on MSDN. This time, I'm doing things the other way around: the next two posts are going to be excerpts from an article I actually published Read More...
First , I discussed the tags collection, which you can use as generic holding bins for whatever data you want to persists within your publications, pages, or shapes. Next , I showed you a few examples using document and page-level tags. So now, to round Read More...
In my last entry, I talked about the Tags collection, which you can use as generic holding bins for whatever data you want to persists within your publications, pages, or shapes. Now let's look at some actual examples. So far, the examples I've been able Read More...
Today I'm going to talk about the Tags collection, a feature in the Publisher object model that hasn't gotten a lot of notice, but is extremely useful when you examine it. (And I'm as guilty as anyone of ignoring it; one of the Publisher testers pointed Read More...
Here's something I didn't notice until I'd been programming with Publisher for awhile: You might have noticed that in Publisher 2003, we added a Documents collection to the Application object. But, you might ask, isn't Publisher a single document interface Read More...
I’m writing a series of articles for beginners on how to program the Publisher object model. These articles focus on the practical side of programming, and only go into enough conceptual detail to explain what the code is doing. So I thought I’d provide Read More...
I’m writing a series of articles for beginners on how to program the Publisher object model. These articles focus on the practical side of programming, and only go into enough conceptual detail to explain what the code is doing. So I thought readers of Read More...
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