Save your publication as a PostScript file for commercial printing

In most cases, you can use Pack and Go to prepare your files for commercial printing. If your printing service uses only Macintosh computers, or if they don't accept Microsoft Publisher files, you may need to save your publication in PostScript file format.

PostScript files are used only for printing on a PostScript printer, and you cannot make changes to a PostScript file after you have saved it. Before you save your publication in PostScript format, ask your commercial printing service if they want you to set specific print settings. You’ll set the options they give you in step 7.

  1. Open the publication you want to save as a PostScript file.
  2. On the File menu, click Save As.
  3. In the Save as type box, click PostScript.
  4. In the File name box, type a name for the file, and then click Save.

    Publisher displays the Save as PostScript File dialog box.

  5. In the Name box, click the PostScript printer or the output device you want.
  6. In the Separations box, click Print separations or Print composite, depending on your commercial print service  requirements.
  7. To set the print options that your printing service recommends, click Advanced Print Settings, click the options you want on the Publication Options tab and the Device Options tab, and then click OK on each tab.
  8. To set the number of pages that print on each sheet, click Properties, select the settings you want, and then click OK.
  9. Click Save.

Note   By default, Windows optimizes PostScript for speed rather than portability. If you’re running Windows 95 or later, be sure that PostScript is optimized for portability and/or ADSC (Adobe Document Structuring Conventions). If you’re running Windows NT or Windows 2000, the PostScript settings depend on the printer driver. There may be no optimization options, but you should be sure that the Page Independence option or the PostScript Output option is turned on (File menu, Print Setup, Properties, Document Options, PostScript Options).