Help! Formatting a poster for printing!

TheVan

Ok im in a bit of a sticky pickle so I need boards help quickly!

Basically I've designed a poster but I haven't got it formatted the way the printer wants and to be honest I'm not great at this stuff. I designed it in publisher and it looks great but here's what the printer wants....

300bpi
3mm bleed
A2 size

How do i do this easily to a file designed in Publisher?!!!

TheVan

Or if this isn't the right place, please refer me on!

heggie

ok what way is it being printed? is it digital, 4 colour process or spot? if its the latter you have big problems, if its either of the other two, its not gonna be great but you could try this:

get someone who has publisher, and acrobat installed, and 'print' to a pdf, that will get it into a format a printer will use, though you will still have the problem of a bleed. 300 dpi means that it should be set up with that resolution before you do it, again another problem, tbh I think your only way out of this is to re do it in illustrator or another program.

satchmo

Or if you don't have Acrobat, CutePDF is a great free & easy app for printing anything to a PDF instead of a printer. Either way, I'd say you might have problems at 300dpi if you have any images embedded - make sure they're high resolution if at all possible.

TheVan

Thanks guys!

Basically I had to re-do it all again in Photoshop....bit of a pain but at least I know for the future!

Cheers for the help!

(and down with Publisher!)