On Tuesday 21 December 2004 09:02 pm, David Herman wrote:
On Tue December 21 2004 7:43 am, Russ wrote:
On Monday 20 December 2004 08:47 pm, BandiPat wrote:
On Monday 20 December 2004 11:36 pm, Russ wrote:
On Monday 20 December 2004 07:56 pm, David Herman wrote:
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I would suggest that you could use punisher under windows to create a postscript file for viewing in linux. Another possibility would be to use publisher and free-pdf or another pdf printer driver in winders to create a pdf file that you can view anywhere and "might" be able to edit w/ kword.
Good luck
I don't completely agree with you. It takes some work but I've redone my Bullitin (4 pages) using Scribus and as it grows I think it will be better than MS Pub. Take a look at it at www.scribus.com if I'm not mistaken. -- Russ
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I agree with both David & Russ. As David points out, open your files up in Publisher and save out as postscript files. Then get Scribus and open the files there, to continue editing them in a better program!
regards, Lee
Pat I like your idea for the pub file but I get an error when I try to save the file as postscript since there is no postscript printer on my system. I tryed creating one but it fails since it cannot find the printer. Is there a windows program like PDF995 (for conversion to PDF) that will convert to Postscript?
I think publisher may offer some of its own print functions but I haven't used it much.
I recommend freePDF, It looks kind of complex to set up but the directions are quite complete and when finished you will have the option to print to pdf as well as your existing printers.
http://myflo.com/files/frpdfloc.htm
You'll know you have found the right site if they tell you to get and install Redmon, ghostscript and acrobat reader.
Instructions for installing and configuring all of these progs are presented in a thourough and understandable way on the site
Good luck
Thanks I have been using PDF995 to create PDF files from Publisher. It has worked fine for several years. I also got publisher to think I have a ps printer by creating my HP 3P with a ps cartridge. Even though there is none. I was able to save a pub doc as ps. When I try to import it with Scribus 1.2 It fails with "Scribus crash due to sig 11". I have not had time to look into this but seem to remember something on this list about it. I have Scribus 1.2 with QT 3.3.3 I have not updated Scribus since I'm just learning Linux and am not familar with the cvs process yet. Suse does not have a RPM update I have found. My system already has Acrobat and it works fine but I need to be able to change my bulletin every two weeks, thats why I'm converting it to Scribus. -- Russ