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From: Hylton Boothroyd on 27 Feb 2006 12:46
Our local film club have just circulated a newsletter in Microsoft
Publisher format (.pub) .

Is there anything that I can read it with it under OS 9.2, my only
active operating system.

If there isn't, is there anything with which I would be able to read it
on my wife's PB with OS 10.3?

Or do I just accept the Film Club's offer to provide printed copy and
feed their belief that with Apple I am underprivileged?

--
Hylton
From: Jon B on 27 Feb 2006 13:03
Hylton Boothroyd <uo-wgo(a)qvepba.pb.hx.invalid> wrote:

> Our local film club have just circulated a newsletter in Microsoft
> Publisher format (.pub) .
>
> Is there anything that I can read it with it under OS 9.2, my only
> active operating system.
>
> If there isn't, is there anything with which I would be able to read it
> on my wife's PB with OS 10.3?
>
> Or do I just accept the Film Club's offer to provide printed copy and
> feed their belief that with Apple I am underprivileged?

No ask them to pdf it or send it in an open format people can even read.
PDF995 is freely available to allow PC users to print PDFs.

Might be worth asking them how many people could even open it if you
sent it to a pc owner. Sorry but we've not owned a PC that could open a
publisher file now for over 6years [1], the last one we had was an early
version of 'works' on a win95 machine and iirc that couldn't touch
publisher files that had been created on the office version.

[1] OK I've hardly got a massive sample, 4 @ the office, 2 @ home,
mixture of works 2000, office pro XP and office standard XP on the
machines
--
Jon B
Above email address IS valid.
<http://www.bramley-computers.co.uk/> Apple Laptop Repairs.
From: Bruce Horrocks on 27 Feb 2006 13:21
In message <1hbfhyz.1ihqlyd1gnqv2aN%uo-wgo(a)qvepba.pb.hx.invalid>, Hylton
Boothroyd <uo-wgo(a)qvepba.pb.hx.invalid> writes
>Our local film club have just circulated a newsletter in Microsoft
>Publisher format (.pub) .
>
>Is there anything that I can read it with it under OS 9.2, my only
>active operating system.

Publisher is a paid for product that is not included with Windows and
there is no free reader program either. So Windows users are likely to
be in the same boat as you.

>Or do I just accept the Film Club's offer to provide printed copy and
>feed their belief that with Apple I am underprivileged?

If you can stomach the humiliation you could just claim to be a Windows
user. ;-)

Regards,
--
Bruce Horrocks
Surrey
England
<firstname>@<surname>.plus.com -- fix the obvious for email
From: Woody on 27 Feb 2006 13:18
Hylton Boothroyd <uo-wgo(a)qvepba.pb.hx.invalid> wrote:

> Our local film club have just circulated a newsletter in Microsoft
> Publisher format (.pub) .
>
> Is there anything that I can read it with it under OS 9.2, my only
> active operating system.
>
> If there isn't, is there anything with which I would be able to read it
> on my wife's PB with OS 10.3?
>
> Or do I just accept the Film Club's offer to provide printed copy and
> feed their belief that with Apple I am underprivileged?

Tell them you have a PC and ask if they will be providing a full copy of
office so that you can read it, or the ?200-300 quid that is required to
buy it.
Or they could use a proper format.
I have over ?3000 worth of PCs and can't open a publisher file (not that
I would if I could).


--
Woody

www.alienrat.com
From: Simon D on 27 Feb 2006 15:26
In article <1hbfhyz.1ihqlyd1gnqv2aN%uo-wgo(a)qvepba.pb.hx.invalid>, uo-
wgo(a)qvepba.pb.hx.invalid says...
> Our local film club have just circulated a newsletter in Microsoft
> Publisher format (.pub) .
>
> Is there anything that I can read it with it under OS 9.2, my only
> active operating system.
>
> If there isn't, is there anything with which I would be able to read it
> on my wife's PB with OS 10.3?
>
> Or do I just accept the Film Club's offer to provide printed copy and
> feed their belief that with Apple I am underprivileged?
>
>

If you forward the file to me at simondaw at msn.com I'll convert it to
(undoubtedly very ungainly - Publisher makes FrontPage look good...)
html for you. Not nice, but viewable.
--
Simon
http://www.simondaw.freeserve.co.uk
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