On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 18:45 +1100, Jeff Shrowder wrote: > MadMonk wrote: > > 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. > > > >
As you are not subscribed, you may not have seen: > > 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 > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Crystle Numan, B.Sc., Web Developer Guided Vision: the possibilities are endless 905.528.3095 http://guidedvision.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
