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Stand-Alone Reader for MS Publisher (.pub) Files?
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Jun 7, 2008, 10:26 AM
 
I have received a document from someone I can't easily contact. It's in ".pub" format, which is apparently a Microsoft Publisher format. I have found plugins for an Adobe product, but not anything stand-alone that will read these things or convert them to something I can open. Any hints?
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Jun 7, 2008, 11:10 AM
 
Get Publisher or find someone with it. Unfortunately, that's really the only way around as far as I know.
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Holy cow, that is awesome. Great tip.
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Jun 7, 2008, 06:24 PM
 
Thanks, mduell! This reminds me of the thread a little while back about Adobe's online PDF features. It had a different URL... I'll have to look into that too.

Added: Here it is! "Adobe's New Acrobat.com" Unfortunately Acrobat.com doesn't support converting .pub files to PDFs. But createpdf.adobe.com does, and it accepted the file and converted it without a problem.

Thanks again!
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