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Reading MS Publisher .pub files?
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barney ntd
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Sep 11, 2002, 07:03 PM
 
Does anyone know how to read Microsoft Publisher (.pub) files on a mac? I'm helping my Dad to switch, but he has loads of files in .pub format which he wants to transfer, and I can't find any program which can read them. MacLinkPlus doesn't do them, nor does the trial version of PageMaker. Anyone got any ideas?

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Sep 11, 2002, 10:47 PM
 
This comes up every so often with my clients...basically, you're SOL. You can extract the text or graphics with various utilities, but you can't open Publisher files with any other program.
     
barney ntd  (op)
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Sep 12, 2002, 08:54 AM
 
Thanks for the answer. Can you recommend a text extraction utility, preferably free, which runs on the mac? Or am I going to have to do this on the PC?

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