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