As more and more people start relying on our favorite page-layout program, the question is bound to come up: How do I open a Microsoft Publisher file in Adobe InDesign? In the past, the only solution I could offer was to open the file in PageMaker for Windows (you’d need a free converter from Adobe to do this; you can find ), then save it as a PageMaker file and open that in InDesign. But not only did that require PM, but it only worked with Publisher 95 and 97 files. Now there are two other methods you might consider. First, you could export the file from Publisher as a PDF file and use. That will attempt to keep the look and feel the same, though you’ll almost certainly have to do some cleanup in InDesign. Another option is. (Why do all these plug-in names make me feel like I’m watching THX 1138?) Note that PUB2ID hasn’t been released yet; it’s just in beta. What I've recommended for people at our office who have made the switch to Mac is to either export to a different format (Word, PDF, etc) from Publisher on their PC beforehand. Alternately you can use online services to convert the Publisher file into a PDF, Word doc, etc. But if you need this kind of thing, and are willing to give Markzware some feedback, give it a shot! Let us know what you think. (Personally, I’m pleased to say that I don’t have a single Publisher file on my computer, or else I’d try it myself.);). Wow, sounds very interesting. This is one of the few reasons I use Windows and Office Virtualized via Parallels on my Mac. I personally Hate, no HATE Microsoft Publisher but I have clients who will send me documents in that format or people in my networking groups so if I have to repost stuff on the web or redistribute the files for them I will convert them to PDF via free PDF converter in Windows (no sense in paying for Acrobat twice on the same machine). If I could open Publisher files in InDesign in OSX I would be one step closer to dumping my virtual Windows Install. I just PDF the Document and open it in Illustrator. Clean it up a bit, drag individual elements to InDesign and text and things like that. ![]() Although the text does not follow a logical path in columns/tables etc. It’s easily edited within Illustrator though. But I have to say the last thing I got to do in Publisher was absolutely rubbishly designed, as expected, so I just exported the text to RTF or something similar and then imported to InDesign. Not fantastic workaround. But it’s from Publisher, so not bad. We bought PDF2ID it converts pdf-documents, but clean-up is needed. And some documents really need what you might call spring cleaning! But if you have no other way it?s nice not have to do the layout once again from scratch. But bear in mind, this is only first version of the plug-in – improvement is expected in an updated version. A publisher to indesign plugin sounds nice – but my guess is, it?ll need cleaning too. Sometimes you?ll get a job in publisher, and the customer, who spend a lot of time building it, will often expect it to look as he or she did it, and not have to approve the document once again. ![]() The safest way I think lean publisher, convert it to pdf – and print it. But I could be wrong I hope! Best regards HanZZZen. “That way, I didn?t have to deal with the politics of staff members of clients who think what they created is great.” WOW “Laberday” how incredibly elitist of you to think that just because someone is using a sub-standard tool, that their work is automatically junk. Last time I checked, owning the best tools doesn’t make someone an “artist”. Maybe, just MAYBE someone that works in Publisher or another sub-par DTP application might just design something even better than a “master” such as yourself. Climb down off your high horse. YOU might think your work is “all that” because you use Adobe. Others probably think its average at best, or complete crap. Have a nice day!
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