On 12/22/2010 12:07 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > > Hi, > > Few months ago when we, re-lab [1], considered what to do next, we > were asked if we could reverse engineer .pub, we said "okay. if it > works in wine". Well, it didn't. And Microsoft never replied my mail, > despite of how willing they seemed to be around 2008 to share specs > (those having attended LGM2008 know what I mean). > > Since we cannot run Publisher, and you still want it supported, we > think that the best way would be for someone to temporarily join the > project and start producing .pub files per request. What we need is > someone with several hours a week of spare time, deep knowledge of MS > Publisher and a licensed copy of the app to produce lots of files with > slight changes so that we could figure out which bits contains what. > > We already have experience of reverse-engineering VSD (MS Visio), so > .pubs don't hold too many fears for us, at least just yet. The > question is whether the community is willing to help itself.
Well done - I wish I could help. Anyone that can help prise the dead hand of Microsoft off the computing community is a hero in my eyes! Jim
