On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 06:58 +0800, Ronda Brown wrote: > On 04/08/2005, at 8:46 PM, Edward Arrowsmith wrote: > > > Is it possible to open Publisher files using the Pages component of > > iWorks please? > > > > If not, is there a program that will open publisher files in OS X > > please? > > > > thanks and Best wishes > > edward > > Hi Edward, > > No program on the PC or Mac, not even Microsoft Word, can open MS > Publisher files except Publisher. Your best hope is to save them as > Word using Publisher on the PC first.
Even then, Publisher needs the original fonts and probably images. It might even mangle the document unless you use the same printer setup - unless they've finally fixed that. > I believe Publisher can export documents in a MS Word format ... badly, especially if the recipient doesn't have the fonts used in the document ... > or each > page as a single image. Pages can import both of these file formats > to varying degrees so you might wish to have the sender resend the > Publisher file in these formats. The best way to handle weird and broken formats like Publisher is convert them to PDF. It's essentially read-only, but PDF with embedded fonts is the only thing that'll reliably preserve the document layout, colours, and content. -- Craig Ringer
