Publisher!?!? WTF?
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- Point5
I have a bit of a problem here. It seems that in the world of real estate and mortgages, everyone uses Publisher to make their crappy brochures and mailers with. A co-worker of mine wants me to "clean-up" his brochure, but it's a Publisher file. Is there any Adobe program that will open it? I tried InDesign with no luck; and no, I don't have Quark here at work. I have never used Publisher, so I don't even know what the output options are from it.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Stupid, smart ass answers will also be welcomed and expected.
- liquid0
HAHAHAHAAH here toooooo........hahahaha......I can open the file for you if you would like and take a screenshot.....
I would lay it out in a different program though .....and then PDF the sucka and hand it back to him
- grafholic0
go to the darkside then you shall see..
- gabriel20
get a mac?
I think you may have to get access to a copy of publisher, it doesn't seem to want to play nicely with other apps..
- jevad0
Before you go there...you should maybe ask yourself if you really want to....
- lifeinbinary0
tell him that the file had a self destruct virus and ask him to pay for the damages
- ricstultz0
its not worth the headache of doing it.... imo.
You cant make crystals outta crap... well at least not without a million years of pressure and... oh nevermind. My point is lost...
Oh yeah, not worth doing...
carry on.
- gabriel20
sorry, I forgot the // before the mac statement I made earlier...
- canuck0
I just got a publisher document sent to me too, it's a newsletter and I have to get it on the web.
Damn these people. Why do they have to make my life difficult. I assume you can convert publisher files into pdf's?
- lifeinbinary0
remember: if the co-worker is not hot, its just not worth it.
- ********0
You can just publish MicroSucks Publisher files as HTML from the program itself.. They look like shit, but it works.
Some company wanted to hire me to do their website - with the caveat I do the "work" in Publisher so their secretary could "update" the site and save themselves "money in the long run". But I did learn a bit about that crappy program.
Oh, that was good laugh. I ran away as fast as I could..
- radar0
I have a client that sends pub. files - I tell them I can't accept them and they usuall resubmit it as a word doc or a PDF
So I assume it has some export options. Get them to resubmit it to you.
- Point50
HAHA! thanks for the input guys. radar, I'll ask them if they can send me a pdf version.
And no, the co-worker is far from hot... chubby man thing.
:x
- ********0
i think i used to export as a .prn file, (some sort of PC postscript), then drop into acrobat distiller, made PDF. havent done it in years though. best not mess with it.....