[scribus] Opening MS Publisher files

a.l.e ale.comp_06 at xox.ch
Sat Aug 7 13:02:47 CEST 2010


hi trevor,

> The problem with exporting the file to Postscript is that the text
> structure has gone. All one is left with are instruction of how to
> make marks on a display surface (be that screen or paper). Postscript
> is essentially a final-form version of the document. My requirement
> is to extract the text and markup from a Publisher and import it into
> Scribus (or any one of dozen text analysis tools) for further
> processing.

so your problem seems to be to extract the text and markup from ms publisher.

on the scribus side, once you have the text in a file with some coherent markup, there is no problem in reading it!


have a nice day
a.l.e



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