Multipage documents have their own pasteboards, and you don't scroll down like InDesign or Quark.I had to bring out a little widget tool to do that, and its only the upper left corner of a shape/box/text/etc. The positional information you'd want to have handy at all times isn't.I've tried a number of things, but the only way to do bleeds is to expand your working area then accounting for it when you're laying out. It doesn't do bleeds like you'd expect a DTP program to do.It follows font embedding permissions unlike any other DTP program I've ever seen, and if it can't embed then it rasterizes the type without preserving color.It almost does spot colors (including Pantones) okay.As in, its 'almost' a decent program, but it seems like Microsoft internal politics won't let it be so. Publisher essentially taunts you with its 'almost's. Heck, I've seen some things done in Word that were surprisingly quite good.
There's a lot of good tools in there for doing things, you can do 'good enough' work in there, etc. At the very least most 'real' DTP programs can import Word files for text, maybe styles as well. I work at a print shop and generally find that Publisher is more troublesome when we get files from it than Word is. Click to expand.A lot of it is going to be how you want to do things.
