Replacement For MS Publisher

The only way I know to read a Publisher file is to convert it to Adobe InDesign. Markzware sells an InDesign plug-in called PUB2ID.

http://www.markzware.com/pub2id/

On Mar 5, 2008, at 5:18 AM, group_list wrote:

> I have a client who has several MS Publisher files. Anyone know of
> a way to read and edit them on a MAC

At MacWorld, I asked the Microsoft people. They passed me around from
person to person and eventually admitted that they had no solution.
They said, "Have the person sending you the files export them in
another format."

---Tim

On Mar 5, 2008, at 6:18 AM, group_list wrote:

> I have a client who has several MS Publisher files. Anyone know of a
> way to read and edit them on a MAC

Have them go back into Publisher and save the files as Word files.

Rick Taft
ricktaftverizon.net

Mark2Ware's PUB2ID will convert Publisher files to Adobe InDesign
files. <http://www.markzware.com/pub2id/>. We don't have it but we
use QXP2ID to convert QuarkXPress files to InDesign and it saves us
work most of the time.

But plan on doing lots of work on a Mac after the conversion. If you
are doing simple 1 page items it might be OK. More complex stuff is
more problematic both due to difficulties in conversion and due to
the different ways you would work with the different programs. So it
might end up being easier to recreate your client's work from
scratch. None of these conversion solutions are magic.

Another possibility, depending on what you need to do, is to have
them provide you with a PDF and then you could edit the PDF.

Everyone who submits PDFs to us which were created in MS Publisher
are extremely ignorant of anything to do with print. We commonly get
photos with too low a DPI, that are RGB instead of CMYK, etc. So we
sometimes spend more time fixing the PDFs than if we created the ads
ourselves and the customers still expect the 15% agency commission.

We don't accept native Publisher files. It is clear from the PDFs MS
Publisher users create reflect that that are using Publisher only
because it came free with their Windows computer. My production
people have requested that I do not buy PUB2ID for them because they
don't want to deal with the crap that is created in MS Publisher.

And don't get me started by all of our advertisers who claim to use
ad agencies but really have the ads created by their accountants,
secretaries and chefs.

Paul Chernoff
Director of Information Technology
Washingtonian Magazine

On Mar 5, 2008, at 3:18 AM, group_list wrote:

> I have a client who has several MS Publisher files. Anyone know of
> a way to read and edit them on a MAC

There is:

Microsoft Publisher To Adobe InDesign ($199)
http://www.markzware.com/pub2id/

This free Web site will convert Microsoft Publisher documents into
PDF format:
https://www.pdfonline.com/convert_pdf.asp

OS X's Preview will allow you to open and "Save As" a PDF document
into any number of other formats.

Randy B. Singer • Mac OS X Routine Maintenance • http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html

I have a client who has several MS Publisher files. Anyone know of a way to read and edit them on a MAC

Chmox allows one to read .chm files. I don't know if this is what you need? <http://chmox.sourceforge.net/>

Zamzar.com converts Publisher files. I've never used it for that, but I have used it several times for docx files and been very satisfied.