Re: How to open MS Publisher files
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 08:09:31 -0600
John Foster <jfoster@augustmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
It's been a while since I tried it, but I think with most M$ Office (or
similar) programs, you have to know of a good printer that can do
postscript. Then you install the driver for that printer from your
Windows cd and tell Publisher to print to file - using that printer.
Seems like a royal pain, after learning Linux... but such is the way of
life in a "user-friendly" world.
HTH,
Jacob
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