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| Because Microsoft Publisher is a proprietary file format, there is not an easy way to access data in MS Publisher files. There are, however, a few options available which will allow you to get data from your <tt>.pub</tt> files into NeoOffice. | Because Microsoft Publisher is a proprietary file format, there is not an easy way to access data in MS Publisher files. There are, however, a few options available which will allow you to get data from your <tt>.pub</tt> files into NeoOffice. | ||
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| If you still have a working copy of MS Publisher, your best bet is to export the file in a common interchange format. | If you still have a working copy of MS Publisher, your best bet is to export the file in a common interchange format. | ||
| - | * If the file is saved in Publisher itself as | + | * If the file is saved in Publisher itself as PostScript (<tt>.ps</tt>), the file will then be opened in Preview (Preview converts it to a <tt>.pdf</tt> file). You can save the text in a <tt>.pub</tt> files as a Word doc in Publisher. |
| - | * ''Someone mentioned copy/paste the entire document into Word, which will preserve some of the layout/formatting and images | + | * ''Someone mentioned copy/paste the entire document into Word, which will preserve some of the layout/formatting and images ??? (on trinity somewhere, I think)'' |
| ==Without Publisher== | ==Without Publisher== | ||
| - | If you do not have a working copy of Publisher available to you, there is currently one free service that can convert a <tt>.pub</tt> file into a PDF file (which you can then manipulate on your Mac to produce files that NeoOffice can import. | + | If you do not have a working copy of Publisher available to you, there is currently one free service that can convert a <tt>.pub</tt> file into a PDF file (which you can then manipulate on your Mac to produce files that NeoOffice can import). |
| * Go to http://www.pdfonline.com/convert_pdf.asp and upload the <tt>.pub</tt> file and the PDF will be emailed to you. | * Go to http://www.pdfonline.com/convert_pdf.asp and upload the <tt>.pub</tt> file and the PDF will be emailed to you. | ||
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Because Microsoft Publisher is a proprietary file format, there is not an easy way to access data in MS Publisher files. There are, however, a few options available which will allow you to get data from your .pub files into NeoOffice.
With Publisher
If you still have a working copy of MS Publisher, your best bet is to export the file in a common interchange format.
- If the file is saved in Publisher itself as PostScript (.ps), the file will then be opened in Preview (Preview converts it to a .pdf file). You can save the text in a .pub files as a Word doc in Publisher.
- Someone mentioned copy/paste the entire document into Word, which will preserve some of the layout/formatting and images ??? (on trinity somewhere, I think)
Without Publisher
If you do not have a working copy of Publisher available to you, there is currently one free service that can convert a .pub file into a PDF file (which you can then manipulate on your Mac to produce files that NeoOffice can import).
- Go to http://www.pdfonline.com/convert_pdf.asp and upload the .pub file and the PDF will be emailed to you.
- I believe they have a 2 MB limit on files to be converted.
- Use Preview to extract the text and graphics.
- Use the Grab selection tool to copy the graphics in the brochure and save each in your favorite NeoOffice-supported graphics file format.
- Use the text tool to select text and paste it into your favorite Mac text app (or directly into NeoOffice).
- If the text is in columnar form, select the text tool and held down the Option key while dragging to select just one column.
