You might try your local library. Even if they don't offer Publisher
on their public access terminals, someone in their IT Dept might be
able to open it and save it in another format. Publisher can be saved
as rich text, Word, postscript, among others. Programs like Quark or
inDesign might be able to open postscript. Open Office can open rich
text and Word. -Or- if you can create a pdf file out of your
Publisher document, you can open it in Photoshop and I believe
inDesign although I've never tried it in InDesign (maybe Quark, too).
Photoshop opens pdf's like a charm and you can extract each object in
the file. It's great. There are lots of free pdf creation programs
out there these days. Most of them just set up as a printer in your
system. How you do it really all depends on how much of the original
design you want to preserve and what tools you have available. Good
luck.
Arleen
On Feb 12, 2007, at 6:16 PM, James Knott wrote:
Dan wrote:
Ken Plumlee wrote:
I just installed your program and am having a problem using it. One
of the
Geek Squad guys told me I could use your program to open a file
ending in
.pub. Can you tell me how to do it.
Regards,
Ken Plumlee
I encountered this recently. I learned that OpenOffice does not have
anything that opens a Microsoft Publisher document. I heard of
another
open source program called Scribus that functions as Publisher. I
downloaded it expecting to be able to use it to open Publisher
documents. However, it wouldn't open a Publisher document. It
ended up
being a complete waste of time.
No, it's not a complete waste of time. You've just learned a valuable
lesson about avoiding lock in with proprietary formats. As far as I
know, there is no other app that can open MS Publisher file. Perhaps
you should complain to Bill Gates about your lost data. That's where
the blame belongs.
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