need to view Publisher files without Publisher

[Todo]

Okay I've got a question and hopefully a quick answer. I've got a user at work who needs to view Publisher files. We dont want to purchase Publisher since their just viewing. Now I understand there are ways to view Publisher files without Publisher. Anyone have any ideas. Thanks!

[geeksRus]

if these are existing files i think you are out of luck. if someone is sending you the files they can be saved or sent as HTML emails.

[Wayward Clam]

Damn, I have a similar problem with PowerPoint...

[emr]

Powerpoint Viewer - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

Don't think there is anything like that for viewing Publisher files though.

emr

[Ferrit]

if whoever is sending them opens them and then saves them they can go to the bottom and be saved as a variety of different format files inc word and doc and older formats like rtf

[confus-ed]

Is the point of publisher not that you publish ? This whole topic seems like a bit of irony to me ! .. this is like saying I know my car has reverse, but how do I get my wife who doesn't like it, to reverse without using it ?

Try the Trial version here ? that's free & will solve your immediate problem

[Todo]

i've been told you can convert Publisher files into PDF files that you can view with Adobe.

[shamus]

Depends on your version of Pub. , might apply though...



http://www.microsoft.com/office/prev...s/column16.asp

[Stalemate]

i've been told you can convert Publisher files into PDF files that you can view with Adobe.

You'll need Acrobat for that though.

I use Publisher every week, and the easiest way I could see would be either to save the file to HTML, MHTML or straight into an image file such as JPG, GIF, or even PS (postscript).

[hudsonsmith]

Nope. Get free CutePDF writer.

http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp

[geeksRus]

but none of that will work if you can't open the files to begin with.

[xsrvx]

www.openoffice.org

This will open powerpoint and .doc and xls files but I don't think it will do publisher but the price is right (FREE)

[Shard92]

www.openoffice.org

This will open powerpoint and .doc and xls files but I don't think it will do publisher but the price is right (FREE)

i don't believe it will work for publisher and remember too it may not work with files created with the latest versions and it may loose something in the conversion.

[Todo]

[QUOTE=hudsonsmith]Nope. Get free CutePDF writer.
Thanks for the advice. I ended up using PDF Writer. I was able to convert the Publisher file to PDF so my user could view with Adobe.

[confus-ed]

Thanks for the advice. I ended up using PDF Writer. I was able to convert the Publisher file to PDF so my user could view with Adobe.

So huh ? this has got to be the most back to front way of doing something I've come accross ! ... the sender of these files could have made them available in all sorts of formats like "wot it saiz 'ere " & I really do find myself wondering what the hell you might be doing ? (& as a btw publisher generally doesn't convert so well into pdf due to all that stuff I'm not so sure I understand about - RGB 'colour spaces' & CMYK {graphics stuff!})..

& will not pagemaker of the 'right version' (so same version as publisher as they change the formats seemingly with every version) open publisher ? & I'm sure word, with the right converters can also recover the text of any publisher file if you've got the right converters - this refers

& I still don't know why you didn't just grab a trial copy ? .. mind much of this topic has me puzzled ..