Re: How to open MS Publisher files

[John Foster <jfoster@augustmail.com>]

On Thursday 10 March 2005 12:35 pm, Tony Godshall wrote:
> 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?

Uh...Yes......
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-- 
John Foster