[scribus] Opening MS Publisher files

Trevor Jenkins bslwannabe at gmail.com
Thu Jul 22 15:30:59 CEST 2010


Simple answer is ... they are too stupid to know how to do that ...
evidenced by their use of Publisher in the first place.

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Keith Abraham <kabraham at gmx.com> wrote:

> Pardon me if no one has mentioned this before but why don't you tell your
> MS Publisher users to send you their files in .ps or .eps format?  MS
> Publisher can do it i.e. "File -> Save As" (or it could the last time I
> looked). Most users don't know you can do that and when you tell them
> they're surprised and get the satisfaction that they've learn something.
>
> There are plenty of postscript converters/viewers around (for free if you
> use Linux/FreeBSD).
>
> I don't know how good MS Publisher is at producing postscript files from
> complex layouts but I've had no problem with the .ps files user's have sent
> me.
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Regards, Trevor.

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