On 07/22/2010 06:05 AM, Keith Abraham 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.
Actually Scribus linux 1.3.2.13svn1 (Ghostscript 8.71) can open .ps files exported from Publisher 6.5. Scribus windows 1.1.3.14 (Ghostscript 8.71) can as well, but both have issues opening a 3 fold page double-fold (created in Publisher/PageMaker) and of course opens 2nd page of the .ps flip page reversed (mirrored image) and oriented incorrectly. Header text is missing, etc., etc., yet if I open the .ps in a standard document viewer it displays just fine. Perhaps I'm exporting incorrectly? How do you propose to edit modify that? Exporting to pdf, opening in Inkscape & exporting as svg & then importing to Scribus works better to some extent. Unfortunately every line in the imported svn is a single frame, so that's pretty much impossible to work with as well. Adobe PageMaker 6.5 provided a utility to convert Publisher (98) (MSPConv.exe) and Quark (QXConvrt.exeO files to PageMaker .P65 files (I don't have any more recent versions) and that utility still works _very_ well. I wonder if it would be possible to do the same with a Scribus add-in/utility?
