__/ [ BearItAll ] on Wednesday 12 July 2006 14:52 \__
> B Gruff wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday 12 July 2006 13:45 Sinister Midget wrote:
>>
>>> On 2006-07-12, B Gruff <bbgruff@xxxxxxxxxxx> posted something concerning:
>>>> There are obvious lines of debate, illustrations, lessons to be drawn,
>>>> etc., but this is a genuine little problem for me at the moment.
>>>>
>>>> I've just received a stack of files from a fellow club member, which he
>>>> has used to publish (a few pages each) a club news letter, distributed
>>>> as hard
>>>> copy, and prepared using Microsoft Publisher. They have the extension
>>>> PUB. He wants to do future work via the 'net, but would like me to
>>>> prepare an archive (in HTML) of his old stuff.
>>>>
>>>> Yes I *have* done a google (houghie!) and tentatively concluded that
>>>> .PUB is MS Publisher specific, and nothing (or nothing that I have or
>>>> FOSS has) can open it or convert it.
>>>>
>>>> Is this true?
>>>
>>> http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/publisher/f/share_pubfiles.htm
>>>
>>> They mention it can Save As postscript. I don't know. That would be the
>>> first time I ever heard of M$ making something that has the capability
>>> of undoing the damage it's done, outside of Word being able to save to
>>> plain text or .RTF. If you can get the person to try this and send that
>>> format if it works, you're in.
>>>
>>> http://neodezign.tripod.com/editpub.htm
>>>
>>> There is an easier way. .PUB files are actually just ASCII text
>>> documents. You can open a .PUB in any text editor. Since Notepad has a
>>> filesize limit and no Replace function you can use WordPad to open
>>> your .PUB file. Make sure you close your PUB in NeoBook before you
>>> begin editing the PUB source file!
>>>
>>> That person seems to believe you should be OK anyway, if you can figure
>>> out what it all means in the file.
>>>
>>> Another site mentioned the possiblilty of their saving as .RTF (it was
>>> an online forum, and the mention is buried deep, so I won't bother with
>>> the link). If so, it's easy peasy.
>>>
>>> Don't know if /any/ of that helps.
>>>
>>> Of course, the _best_ help is to steer people away from closed formats
>>> so this kind of thing doesn't happen.
>>
>> Easiest, in fact, is to tell him that I can't read it, and ask what else
>> he can save it in?:-)
>>
>> Thanks SM
>
> Publisher can save to html, how good that would be with links to put on a
> web I don't know.
Publisher cannot save HTML. It can save 'HTML', which may or may not be
capable or getting rendered by a modern, standards-based Web browser. The
same applies to E-mails that are HTML-formatted and are sent from Windows
boxes. I find myself tolerating them most of the time, simply by just
'downgrading' all E-mails to plain text. The bloat in the inbox (e.g. 38KB
for a one-line E-mail), however, remains.
> But I know when I asked someone to do similar with MS Word then zip the
> folder and send it to me the pages came across as individuals, links from
> menus and to anything outside such as pictures were all broken. So if they
> are a lot of documents you might find yourself fairly busy for a while
> fixing it all.
It's usually a problem that's related to case-sensitivity (or lack of it!).
The last time I had to cope with a circumstance like that was when my uncle
sent me a 70MB genealogy project of our family. It was created in Netscape
and Word under Microsoft Windows and there was a mishmash of uppercase and
lowercase, which led to broken references on the Linux server where I made
it shareable for the family.
http://linuxboxadmin.com/articles/filefriction.php
I wrote some script to resolve this, namely by translating everything to a
'neutral' ground.
http://schestowitz.com/Software/Lowercase/
Best wishes,
Roy
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