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Re: How to open MS Publisher files



According to Gene Heskett,
> On Thursday 10 March 2005 10:02, John Foster wrote:
> >I am really stumped here. I was sent a file formatted as MS
> > Publisher (.pub) & asked to print it. Yep, I shot off my yap & said
> > MS did not make a format that some Debian app could not open. Well
> > for the first time in several years it appears that I was somewhat
> > in error. Any ideas???
> >Thanks.
> >--
> >John Foster
> 
> We do that from time to time, getting powder burns on our phsych for 
> our bragadacio.  And, I'm not familiar with a .pub, but have you 
> tried the latest OOo beta?  I'd think that if it can load it, it can 
> print it.  I'd say it should be worth the download time as its pretty 
> handy at other things too.

Well, there's qemu, a Debian app, and under it you can run a
Microsoft OS, and under it you can run a Microsoft app, and
it could probably open the doc in question.  You didn't say
that you could do it using an Debian app "exclusively", did
you?




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