Craig Ringer wrote: > On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 10:41 -0800, Russ wrote: > > >>My big problem has been coverting my MS Pub documents, basically I >>rebuilt them in Scribus. > > > Unfortunately there aren't many options there. I expect it'd be possible > to write an MS Publisher importer plugin, but one would need > documentation on the format and a *lot* of time. Plus, if I recall > correctly the Publisher format changes more version-to-version than most > other DTP formats (which is saying something!) so one might end up > writing more than one related importer. Ouch. > > Can you get the Publisher users to export their text content and images > then provide you with a PDF proof? That's what I normally do here when > advertisers try to send us MS Publisher despite the big red letters in > our accepted formats list.
Yes, you might also consider how much help PDFcreator might offer as well. This is basically a GPL'd distiller equivalent for windows. You would just install this software and then print to it as if it was a printer, which would result in your being prompted for the filename of the PDF you are about to create. Find out more here: Home page: http://sector7g.wurzel6.de/pdfcreator/index_en.htm Sourceforge project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ Hopefully that helps somewhat. Cheers, Steven
