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By: Sentiments On Common Sense » MS Publisher to Anything you want???

Sentiments On Common Sense » MS Publisher to Anything you want??? — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 04:41:16 +0000

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By: Dave Doolittle

Dave Doolittle — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:25:42 +0000

Found a plug-in for Adobe InDesign which will convert those pesky MS Publisher files to Mac InDesign CS2 and CS3. That’s the good news. The bad news: They are asking $200 for it! If you’re desperate and / or loaded, check it out:
http://www.markzware.com/pub2id/overview.php
Walt – you may wish to review this plug-in. It’s the only such thing I’ve ever seen.

By: Weekend Update 2.21.09 | Beth Callaghan | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:03:18 +0000

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By: Steven Taylor

Steven Taylor — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:51:50 +0000

There is also a free online service that will convert almost any file, including .pub files, to pdf. It is at
https://www.pdfonline.com/convert_pdf.asp and works quite nicely.

By: Royston Lodge

Royston Lodge — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 21:52:30 +0000

Another option: Depending on the skill level of the Mac user, if they have an Intel-based Mac they might be able to get Publisher running on their Mac without having to install a full version of Windows by using WINE instead (http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX). This option is definitely not for the casual user.

By: Royston Lodge

Royston Lodge — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 21:35:01 +0000

If the Mac user needs to be able to edit the Publisher document, here’s the workaround that sometimes works for me. First, instead of saving the Publisher document as a PDF, save the document on the PC as a Postscript file. Then, on the Mac, open up the Postscript file using the open-source Scribus (www.scribus.net), and use Scribus do to the editing. If that doesn’t work well for the user, it’s also possible to open up PDF files using the open source Inkscape (www.inkscape.org), but each page of the document has to be opened up as a separate Inkscape document. The user can then save the Inkscape documents as SVG files, and import them into Scribus for editing. This method requires more effort, but may achieve better results.

By: Mark Cramer

Mark Cramer — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:41:59 +0000

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[Tips] Microsoft Publisher documents on a Mac | edu.Mac.nation — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:15:35 +0000

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By: steve funk

steve funk — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:05:29 +0000

re the publisher import issue.. couple of things.. within MS Publisher select all and copy to MS Word on Windows platform, then save Word file, email it to the Mac, open with MS Word on Mac. Or, use open office, copy into there on windows, then email to mac and use open office to open the doc on the mac.

Then, well, re edit to your liking. Any way you slice this you will have to more work. Good luck