John D Williston Sr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Thursday, February 10, 2005 3:19 PM Subject: [users] Microsoft
Can Openoffice 1.1.4 open publisher files and if so how do I do this??????
John,
It seems that no other program can open Publisher Files, not even Ooo. I have run into this problem myself. I created several projects with Publisher back when I was still stuck to MS Office. Now that I use Ooo for everything but calendaring and e-mail, I have no way to use those Publisher files. I still have MS Office 2000, but I refuse to install it.
AFAIK you must decide how important those Publisher files are and either install Publisher or give up the files.
Sorry I can't be more help. Maybe you want to take it up with Chairman Bill.
Correct. No other program will open Publisher files, not even M$Word. Before I migrated fully to GNU/Linux (RH7,8,9, Fedora) I ran a dual boot system for a year and in that time, among other things, converted (what I thought was) all of the Publisher files I was ever likely to need. I saved them in .rtf - which means losing the graphics. But I had hard copies of most of them anyway to help me remember their layout etc. That's OK if the key thing you want is the text and it has saved my bacon many times. (Incidentally, I also converted a heap of wordperfect files to .doc - wash my mouth out - because it was easy and I knew OOo would handle them.)
But I could have saved the Publisher files in PostScript format, and perhaps I should have. At least that would have preserved the graphics, and I could recreate hard copies either by printing them director converting them to .pdf format. Who knows, a "free" .pdf editor might emerge from the ether one day, and it might find its way into OOo :-)
Jeff --------------------------- Windows are a pane
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