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March 9th, 2005, 09:13 PM
#1
Registered User
need to view Publisher files without Publisher
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!
I think the problem is either an ID10T or PEBCAK error
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March 9th, 2005, 10:47 PM
#2
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.
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March 9th, 2005, 11:06 PM
#3
Registered User
Damn, I have a similar problem with PowerPoint...
Flash! Don't heckle the supervillain!
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March 9th, 2005, 11:24 PM
#4
Registered User
Powerpoint Viewer - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
Don't think there is anything like that for viewing Publisher files though.
emr
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March 9th, 2005, 11:38 PM
#5
Registered User
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
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March 10th, 2005, 05:13 AM
#6
Geezer
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
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March 10th, 2005, 09:24 PM
#7
Registered User
i've been told you can convert Publisher files into PDF files that you can view with Adobe.
I think the problem is either an ID10T or PEBCAK error
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March 10th, 2005, 09:33 PM
#8
Registered User
Depends on your version of Pub. , might apply though...
http://www.microsoft.com/office/prev...s/column16.asp
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March 11th, 2005, 12:58 AM
#9
Registered User
Originally Posted by Todo
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).
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March 11th, 2005, 10:35 AM
#10
Registered User
Probability factor of one to one...we have normality, I repeat we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.
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March 11th, 2005, 11:45 AM
#11
but none of that will work if you can't open the files to begin with.
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March 11th, 2005, 12:14 PM
#12
Registered User
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)
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March 11th, 2005, 01:45 PM
#13
Originally Posted by 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)
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.
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March 11th, 2005, 08:47 PM
#14
Registered User
[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.
I think the problem is either an ID10T or PEBCAK error
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March 12th, 2005, 03:04 AM
#15
Geezer
Originally Posted by Todo
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 ..
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