On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 12:31:12 -0600,
"Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Ok, I'm abusing my powers here to ask a really [OT] question. If
> anyone objects, you definitely wouldn't be out of line. But it's
> easier to ask forgiveness than permission, rig
"Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have some really old, as in ancient ventura publishing files that I'd be
> interesting at cracking open and at least extracting out the important
> stuff in order to convert to some more modern tool.
I have an old Ventura Publisher 3.0 for Window
Hi Curt,
A quick glance in the bookcase and I see the manual is there. That's a good
sign since the manuals usually get trashed before the disks. AFAIK the best
bet is going to be trying to get a postscript file out of an installed copy of
ventura for each document. Then at least you can read i
These sites http://filext.com/ http://www.icdatamaster.com/ may help you identify what
the files are, but it appears that they give no hints as to the internal format. You
might get that once you know what it is though.
They are also useful sites to see whether your extension of choice is alread
I might be willing to see what I can do.
I've been on a "extracting things from other things" kick lately, like
pulling midi files out of proprietary archive files.
How much harder can this be? If they're not too big/too many files, sent
them my way, I'll take a shot in my spare time.
JD
Curtis
Curtis L. Olson writes:
>
> I have some really old, as in ancient ventura publishing files that I'd be
> interesting at cracking open and at least extracting out the important
> stuff in order to convert to some more modern tool.
>
> I'm seeing extensions like ".WP" and ".WS" which is probably
Ok, I'm abusing my powers here to ask a really [OT] question. If anyone
objects, you definitely wouldn't be out of line. But it's easier to ask
forgiveness than permission, right? :-)
I have some really old, as in ancient ventura publishing files that I'd be
interesting at cracking open and a
