[scribus] Opening MS Publisher files

[Trevor Jenkins]

If you'd read back through the thread you'd see that I don't have Publisher.
I get occasional PUB files from friends who haven't a clue --- if they did
they wouldn't be using Publisher in the first place. Asking them to save
their files in another format is like asking for a loan at the bank; they
don't understand the need or anyway comprehension of how to do it.

On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 1:12 PM, a.l.e <ale.comp_06 at xox.ch> wrote:

> 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!
>
> addendum:
>
> if you can export the text from ms publisher to rtf or doc you will be able
> to read it with open office, save it as .odt and import it into scribus
> while keeping all the formats publisher could export (well, most of them).
>
>
> ciao
> a.l.e
>
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-- 
Regards, Trevor.

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