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From: Alan Lord on 5 Apr 2008 17:15
Ron Howard wrote:
> I would like to see a desktop publisher application that would be able
> to read and write Microsoft Publisher files. I love open office, but
> need to be able to load and modify our church's brochure that is in .pub
> format.

Start again and use Scribus.

I can't afford Microsoft office, so I have to have a friend do
> it for now. But love your office suite, keep up the good work. Plus, I
> like the idea of taking some money away from Bill Gates, that man has
> enough money! I have looked into using Linux, but I would have to buy a
> windows emulator,

You get WINE with most distros - that will run "most" windows apps...
And it's free.

>
<snip the religious stuff />

HTH


Al

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From: Robin Laing on 7 Apr 2008 13:07
Ron Howard wrote:
> I would like to see a desktop publisher application that would be able
> to read and write Microsoft Publisher files. I love open office, but
> need to be able to load and modify our church's brochure that is in .pub
> format. I can't afford Microsoft office, so I have to have a friend do
> it for now. But love your office suite, keep up the good work. Plus, I
> like the idea of taking some money away from Bill Gates, that man has
> enough money! I have looked into using Linux, but I would have to buy a
> windows emulator, since most of my programs use windows exclusively. Ron H

Making the decision to use something other than Microsoft isn't that
hard. It requires a bit of work at the beginning and then you are free
to expand at no cost to you.

If you wanted to, you could restart the brochure in OpenOffice Draw or
even use Scribus which is a free publishing program. The only real
outlay would be the creation of the document in either program. But
that is your choice.

I have made brochures in OOo with no problems. In fact, there is the
added benefit that I can create a PDF of the file for downloading on the
net when visitors come to our website.

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Robin Laing

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