Re: How to open MS Publisher files
On Thursday 10 March 2005 04:55 pm, Glenn Davy wrote:
> Bad news is that .pub files contain a lot of win gdi information in them
> (which is why if you've ever used publisher and taken files from one
> computr to another, things aren't always quite where you put them esp when
> printing) and so I assume you couldn't write an app to open them in *nix
> without ref to a gdi library. Aside from using publisher itself under qemu,
> wine etc etc, you could ask the person who sent you the file to provide an
> eps or postscript file, which I think publisher can make.
> Glenn
>
I acytually tried to use the same machine, running XP to send some familiar
format to my server and guess what, even Publisher does not offere any save
as or export options. It may be that I am unfamiliar with Publisher, but I
could not see any way to do it.
--
John Foster
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