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.
- TheTick0
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
- mitee_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.....