There was recently a discussion here about converting Microsoft Publisher files to Scribus. The thread was sparked by someone from Markzware Software asking if the Scribus community would be interested in a conversion tool. Markzware makes (expensive) add-ons for InDesign and QuarkXPress, including conversion tools.
I recently discovered zamzar.com, an online conversion site. In addition to many other conversion capabilities (including various formats for images, video, sound and e-books), zamzar.com will convert a Microsoft .pub file to .doc or any of several other formats. I also noted that .sla is not on any of their lists, either as import or export format. I didn't sign up for a paid account. It's free without signing up for files up to 200 MB, but only if you have them e-mail the result to you. My mail accounts have to go through my university, which limits attachments to 8 MB, so I'd need to get a paid account (minimum $7 a month) to use their online file storage and download features. I don't have anything that I need to convert right now, but I bookmarked zamzar.com just in case I need it some day. I also don't know how good their conversions are. I mention this just in case someone on the list needs to convert a .pub file to something usable. I have no financial or other interest in zamzar.com.
