This Document Does Not Allow Exporting

[Al S]

Hello, I downloaded a demo document from the home screen when Publisher opens. The "save" and "save as" options are grayed out and it says it can't be exported. Although this is not a bug, I was hoping to keep the document for some design inspiration and as a guide in the future. This isn't an actual magazine that's sold off the shelves for what I can tell. So I am wondering why there is no option to use it (or parts of it) in future designs? So I would then wonder what the point of allowing someone to download it would be in the first place? Unless I have some setting that is not set up correctly? As the tutorial as based on the magazine maybe I am supposed to do them all and I'll have one to export of my own!

[PaulEC]

I would assume that, while there is no problem keeping the sample for "design inspiration and as a guide in the future", it is copyright and Serif don't want people pinching parts of it to use themselves in other publications.

Obviously it is there to show what can be done in Publisher, but if you want to design your own magazine (if only for practice) you need to produce your own pictures/text etc.

[Al S]

OK Thanks

[user_123]

On 6/24/2019 at 12:45 PM, PaulEC said:

Serif don't want people

Same problem occurred to me, gonna have to use a different software then.

@Al S You can do it using Inkscape, where they don't want to 'control people' what they do. It's also free. 

Edited September 17, 2022 by user_123

[GarryP]

Welcome to the forums @user_123

Serif are simply making sure that people can’t easily make derivatives of something which is someone else’s copyrighted work.
There’s no ‘control’ being asserted here, just Serif doing what’s right for the people who created the sample documents.

You don’t need to “use a different software”, just look at how a sample document has been created and try and make something similar for yourself.

P.S. The particular sample in the OP’s post is no longer available as a sample document.