On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Ray <risely at tadaust.org.au> wrote:
> > For anyone considering buying MS Publisher just to read someone else's .pub > files, beware some versions of Publisher will NOT read files from different > versions. > Microsoft did that with Word too. There was a time when the only way to handle files between Office 97/2003 and Office 2007 was to use OpenOffice.org v3 Beta. And MS's service pack for Office 2007 to provide direct cross-version compatiblity for their own product was a massive 175Mb. The confusion this caused for students in the college I worked at that time was huge. > One of the reasons I moved away from the MS Publisher program. > > OK, Page Plus is not free, but the time taken to produce good pages, costs > money too. > About 15 years there was a give away copy of Page Plus in the front cover of a UK magazine. I used that for a few months when producing a newsletter. It was okay and there was then nothing from Microsoft. Regards, Trevor. <>< Re: deemed! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20100722/c92ad0e8/attachment.htm>
