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 > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -- Regards, Trevor. <>< Re: deemed! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20100807/e41ca3b3/attachment.htm>
