jonathon wrote:
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 19:04, Bob Benolkin wrote:
Does OpenOffice have the ability to use "Microsoft Publisher"?
Not directly.
Indirectly, between Write and Draw, one can do everything that can be
done within MS Publisher.
If doing serious desktop publishing, Scribus might better suit the
requirements than OOo. OTOH, the use o f MS Publisher implies very
casual and infrequent use of desktop publishing, and as such, OOo will
be more than adequate.
I have many *.pub files but can't get them to work because, now that I'm on Vista with a
64-bit computer. I can't get "Microsoft Office 2003" installed.
Consider their loss to be part of the financial cost you paid, of
downgrading to software distributed by a vendor that enforces vendor
lockin using whatever method that can be utilized, regardless of
morals, ethics, or laws.
jonathon
Bob, do you still have access to Publisher on another machine? If so,
and recreating the files from scratch is not an option, you *might* be
able to get somewhere by installing a software "printer" that creates
PDF files, and using that from Publisher. OOo 3.0 has some capability to
import PDFs (though I don't know how well it does yet), or there are
other utilities that can read them and create a file in some more
standard format (.doc, maybe) that could then be dealt with. You'd still
have to do lots of cleanup, I'm sure, but with luck you'd be able to
proceed. Of course, you could leave the files as PDF if they look OK
that way and you don't need to edit them again.
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