My newsletters on MS Publisher 2002 are often about 30 pages long and the text (Font size 8) connects throughout. When changing the zoom part-way through the document, the text at the end of the page drifts over into the next page or vice versa. The Microsoft site has an article "Text baseline shifts when you change the Zoom percentage in Publisher 2003" which seems vaguely relevant and they suggest using Adobe Type 1 PostScript fonts which, they say "appear on the Font list in Publisher 2003 with a printer icon next to them". Not on my copy they don't! But I'd be interested to try them out although I don't know about paying lots of money for them which is what I found when I searched the internet. Their other suggestion of using large zooms of 400% - 800% seems laborious if you have to keep rechecking what's happened to your text position every minute or two! Any ideas please? Regards, Geoff

So are you using Publisher 2002 or 2003? Soylent Green is PEOPLE!!!

That is one of the reasons that professional in the publishing business use Postscript fonts and printers and use software like Pagemaker and Quark. The rendered pages stay the same size and hold their position. You may reduce the effects by not filling the pages that full and inserting page breaks every few pages to keep the pages from flowing. It might be easier to get a Postscript printer. They are a lot cheaper these days and most come with the common fonts. I don't know how your final output is printed, but if your publisher is also using a Postscript typesetter, the pages will come out the same.

Thanks for the comments and tips folks! I'm using MS Publisher 2002. I print it on my own Canon S900 printer as I only need a dozen copies but couldn't say offhand whether it is a Postscript printer? I wouldn't want to spend a lot of money just to put this right. Incidentally, I haven't noticed the same symptoms on PagePlus 10.0 so perhaps the publishing software itself can accommodate normal fonts? Geoff