[plug] Software replacement list

[Shayne]

Erm. That may work, although with knobs on it.
Publisher is like a cripple-headed version of Quark or Pagemaker, but
like most MS stuff it does have a sense of document structure.
Powerpoint imports by looking at Headings, body text etc, and pumps
it sideways into a presentation. 
But theres also the whole OLE/COM embedding thing going on.
That makes for bad X-platform compatability....... 

On Friday 15 November 2002 17:38, Chris Caston wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 17:00, Craig Ringer wrote:
> > OK, calming down now.
> >
> > Yeah, lets just say that an MS Publisher converter would be /really/
> > nice.
>
> I got some .pub file once for Northern Suburbs Career Options.
>
> I promptly told them that I do not use use MS software on my computer
> for security and stability reasons. They sent me the text of the article
> back in an e-mail.
>
> I think though that publisher is actually very similar to powerpoint. If
> I'm not mistaken I was once able to open up a publisher file in office
> XP powerpoint.
>
> So it *may* be possible to someone convert a .pub to a .ppt and open it
> in openoffice.org impress. Never tried it though and also unsure of how
> I would go about it.
>
> Chris
>
> > --
> > Craig Ringer
> > GPG Key Fingerprint: AF1C ABFE 7E64 E9C8 FC27  C16E D3CE CDC0 0E93 380D
> > 	-- if it ain't broke, add features 'till it is. (or:)
> > 	while (! broken) { features ++ ; broken = isBroken(features) }