The problem with exporting the file to Postscript is that the text structure has gone. All one is left with are instruction of how to make marks on a display surface (be that screen or paper). Postscript is essentially a final-form version of the document. My requirement is to extract the text and markup from a Publisher and import it into Scribus (or any one of dozen text analysis tools) for further processing.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 4:22 AM, NoOp <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:glgxg@sbcglobal.net">glgxg@sbcglobal.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 07/22/2010 06:05 AM, Keith Abraham wrote:<br>
> Pardon me if no one has mentioned this before but why don't you tell<br>
> your MS Publisher users to send you their files in .ps or .eps format?<br>
> MS Publisher can do it i.e. "File -> Save As" (or it could the last time<br>
> I looked). Most users don't know you can do that and when you tell them<br>
> they're surprised and get the satisfaction that they've learn something.<br>
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> There are plenty of postscript converters/viewers around (for free if<br>
> you use Linux/FreeBSD).<br>
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> I don't know how good MS Publisher is at producing postscript files from<br>
> complex layouts but I've had no problem with the .ps files user's have<br>
> sent me.<br>
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</div>Actually Scribus linux 1.3.2.13svn1 (Ghostscript 8.71) can open .ps<br>
files exported from Publisher 6.5. Scribus windows 1.1.3.14 (Ghostscript<br>
8.71) can as well, but both have issues opening a 3 fold page<br>
double-fold (created in Publisher/PageMaker) and of course opens 2nd<br>
page of the .ps flip page reversed (mirrored image) and oriented<br>
incorrectly. Header text is missing, etc., etc., yet if I open the .ps<br>
in a standard document viewer it displays just fine. Perhaps I'm<br>
exporting incorrectly? How do you propose to edit modify that?<br>
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Exporting to pdf, opening in Inkscape & exporting as svg & then<br>
importing to Scribus works better to some extent. Unfortunately every<br>
line in the imported svn is a single frame, so that's pretty much<br>
impossible to work with as well.<br>
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Adobe PageMaker 6.5 provided a utility to convert Publisher (98)<br>
(MSPConv.exe) and Quark (QXConvrt.exeO files to PageMaker .P65 files (I<br>
don't have any more recent versions) and that utility still works _very_<br>
well. I wonder if it would be possible to do the same with a Scribus<br>
add-in/utility?<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Regards, Trevor.<br><br><>< Re: deemed!<br>