On 14/06/07, Rob Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: > Hi all, > > I've managed to convince my parents that Ubuntu is for them (My mum just got a new laptop with Vista and Office 2007 and thinks that it is completely unintuitive!) however there is one issue. > > They use Microsoft Publisher. > > Whilst there are many tools out there that will act as a replacement, I am unable to find a program that will load and save MS Pub files. > > Can anyone help? > > Thanks, > > M. > -- I'm not sure if this will help but could they run Publisher and OOo or Scribus on Windows and select everything on the page, copy it and paste it into OOo? Other than that, they could try using something like PDF Creator on Windows which as far as I know will export into EPS/PS format. Even if it doesn't, you should be able to use something like pdf2ps to convert the document into PS format which can then be imported (hopefully) into Scribus and then copied and pasted into OOo. I think PDF creator also has the option to create PNG/JPG/BMP/TIF etc files, so if all else fails they could get the whole page as an image which can easily be imported into OOo. I went down the PDF2PS route the other day. I was after a high quality logo for the company I work for. Luckily I found a PDF copy of a business card which I was able to convert to PDF, import into Scribus and then copy and paste into Inkscape to make an SVG version. Looked great when it was finally imported into OOo, much better than the JPG copies that were available to me. Hope this helps anyway. Rob -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
As a newbie. I think that OOo will do all your relations want because Draw is so well integrated with Writer. But you'll have to explain the mysteries of how the curser changes for what you want to do - it's not obvioius and took me many days to fathom it out completely. I don't think you need scribus at an elemenetary level - it holds out no attractions for me above Writer/Draw in OOo. Robin
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