The problem with exporting the file to Postscript is that the text structure has gone. All one is left with are instruction of how to make marks on a display surface (be that screen or paper). Postscript is essentially a final-form version of the document. My requirement is to extract the text and markup from a Publisher and import it into Scribus (or any one of dozen text analysis tools) for further processing.
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 4:22 AM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote: > On 07/22/2010 06:05 AM, Keith Abraham wrote: > > Pardon me if no one has mentioned this before but why don't you tell > > your MS Publisher users to send you their files in .ps or .eps format? > > MS Publisher can do it i.e. "File -> Save As" (or it could the last time > > I looked). Most users don't know you can do that and when you tell them > > they're surprised and get the satisfaction that they've learn something. > > > > There are plenty of postscript converters/viewers around (for free if > > you use Linux/FreeBSD). > > > > I don't know how good MS Publisher is at producing postscript files from > > complex layouts but I've had no problem with the .ps files user's have > > sent me. > > > Actually Scribus linux 1.3.2.13svn1 (Ghostscript 8.71) can open .ps > files exported from Publisher 6.5. Scribus windows 1.1.3.14 (Ghostscript > 8.71) can as well, but both have issues opening a 3 fold page > double-fold (created in Publisher/PageMaker) and of course opens 2nd > page of the .ps flip page reversed (mirrored image) and oriented > incorrectly. Header text is missing, etc., etc., yet if I open the .ps > in a standard document viewer it displays just fine. Perhaps I'm > exporting incorrectly? How do you propose to edit modify that? > > Exporting to pdf, opening in Inkscape & exporting as svg & then > importing to Scribus works better to some extent. Unfortunately every > line in the imported svn is a single frame, so that's pretty much > impossible to work with as well. > > Adobe PageMaker 6.5 provided a utility to convert Publisher (98) > (MSPConv.exe) and Quark (QXConvrt.exeO files to PageMaker .P65 files (I > don't have any more recent versions) and that utility still works _very_ > well. I wonder if it would be possible to do the same with a Scribus > add-in/utility? > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -- Regards, Trevor. <>< Re: deemed! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20100807/e101ea09/attachment.htm>
