[plug] Need help getting into publisher files.

[Bret Busby]

On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Meryon Montgomery wrote:

> Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 16:27:32 +0800
> From: Meryon Montgomery <monts at westnet.com.au>
> Reply-To: plug at plug.org.au
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: [plug] Need help getting into publisher files.
> 
> I've recently helped a friend switch from windoze. They are able to get 
> around the system and use various tools like OO.org and Scribus to create 
> documents.
>
> The problem is this; they have several publisher documents that they need to 
> get into, I've googled and found that there is no one easy solution to this 
> problem ( has to do with the horrible file format that publisher uses).
>
> Has anyone found a way to get .pub files imported into scribus or OO.org. I'm 
> thinking about a print to ps or eps and seeing if I can import that?
>
> Any Solutions or hints would be great
> _______________________________________________
>

Depending on the version of Publisher, from memory, later versions can 
export to HTML.

If that is correct, perhaps, exporting to HTML, then editing the created 
HTMl files with whatever application the user chooses, could be a 
solution.

--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
  you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
   Chapter 28 of
   "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
   A Trilogy In Four Parts",
   written by Douglas Adams,
   published by Pan Books, 1992

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