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Some third-party trapping or page-imposition programs require using page-independent PostScript (PostScript: A page description language used by printers and imagesetters.) files that contain font-download information for every page of a multipage publication. Also, the pages in a page-independent PostScript file can be rearranged or printed selectively by a third-party program without affecting how the other pages of the PostScript file print.

1. On the File menu, click Save As.
2. In the File name box, type a name for the file. You don't need to type a file name extension— Microsoft Publisher automatically adds .ps to the end of the file name you type.
3. In the Save as type list, click PostScript.
4. Click Save.
5. In the Save as PostScript File dialog box, in the Name list under Printer, click the PostScript printer or imagesetter (imagesetter: A high resolution output device that prints to paper or film, or directly to a press plate. Publications that will be commercially printed are usually output from an imagesetter as the first step toward going to press.) you want.
6. Click Properties.
7. Click Advanced.
8. Under printer name Advanced Document Settings, expand Document Options, and then expand PostScript Options.
9. In the PostScript Output Option list, click Optimize for Portability.
10. Click OK twice.
11. Do one of the following:

    Save as a color-separated file

    1. Click Advanced Print Settings, and then click the Separations tab.
    2. In the Output list, click Separations.
    3. In the These plates list, do one of the following:
       • Click All defined inks to print a spot-color or process-color plate for every ink you have defined in the publication (Tools menu, Commercial Printing Tools, Color Printing).
       • Click Used inks only to print a spot-color or process-color plate for every defined ink that is used in the publications.
       • Click Convert spot to process to print only process-color plates and convert all defined spot colors to process colors.

    Save as a composite file

    1. Click Advanced Print Settings, and then click the Separations tab.
    2. In the Output list, do one of the following:
       • Click Composite Grayscale to save a composite PostScript file that will be printed to a black and white printer.
       • Click Composite CMYK to save a composite PostScript file that you can use in a third-party trapping or page-imposition program or to print to a CMYK (CMYK: A color model for commercial printing that produces a wide range of colors by mixing varying percentages of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black inks.) proofing device.
       • Click Composite RGB to save a composite PostScript file that will be printed to a color printer.

    Note  To save a composite CMYK or RGB (RGB: A system that describes colors as a mixture of red (R), green (G), and blue (B). The color is defined as a set of three values (R,G,B). Using 0 (zero) percent of each color produces black; using 100 percent of all three colors produces white.) PostScript file, you must have a color PostScript printer selected.

12. To set other print options that your printing service recommends, click the options you want on the Page Settings tab and the Graphics and Fonts tab, and then click OK.
13. Click Save.