Barbara Duprey wrote:
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.
How many PUB files do you have?
Do you know anyone that has Publisher installed?
If there are not too many, then you may find a free
site that would convert them for you.
The only way I have found to "convert" them so the files
could be used was having the pages saved as a web page.
The images and text will be accessible to you that way.
I could not get any other "save as" to keep the images
and text in their proper positions.
Ever the save as .doc did not work.
Just remembered!!!!
I am wondering if you could get Office installed under the
compatibility install options in Vista?
To get Corel Draw 12 to install on Vista I had to use it.
Control Panel
Control Panel Home (not classic view)
Programs
Program and Features
Use and older program with this version of Windows.
Maybe you will find a version of Windows that would work,
like XP/Pro or other 32-bit O/S version.
I had trouble with Adobe Acrobat 6 and 7 with Vista as well.
I decided to use doPDF instead for a while. The doPDF printer
writes the PDF file faster than Acrobat did and does not have
the problems of messing with the placement of images that Acrobat
did.
So try the compatibility install to install Office 2003. Make sure
you install the file compatibility add-on to Office that allows it to
read Office 2007 files. It allowed me to open Publisher 2007 files
in Pub 2003. But, Word 2003 has trouble reading Word 2007
files with MS's own add-on.
I hope that might help you. If not, then it may help others install
older programs in Vista. I use 32-bit Vista, so it might not be
the same with 64-bit Vista.
Let me know if it does work for you.
Tim L.
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