[plug] Importing .pub files

Leon Brooks leon at brooks.fdns.net
Thu Jul 4 21:00:58 WST 2002


On Thu, 4 Jul 2002 14:21, Bret Busby wrote:
> Does anyone know of any applications that run on Linux, that can import MS
> Publisher files (and possibly export them as HTML or PDF files or
> something), to allow files that are sent in MS Publisher format, to be
> manipulated and published on a website?

> The version of MS Publisher that is used, is believed to be MS
> Publisher98.

All you can do is fire up Publisher on a Windows box (or emulator) and feed 
the printed output through Adobe's PDF-making tools. Expect *huge* PDFs. If 
you only want the actual text, try `strings <rubbish.pub | less' and see how 
much of it survives.

Cheers; Leon



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