publisher drop-in replacement

[Tom Davies]

Hi :)

Windows has "Publisher" but surely linux has an equivalent if if it can't read 
".pub" files?  Does anyone know a package that works in a similar way or that 
people will find more intuitive?  Preferably a program that has been ported to 
Windows but can produce generic output that can be used by a few different 
packages in linux.

Does anyone know an easy way of converting publisher files (".pub") into 
something usable on linux?

Publisher has an interesting way of allowing several text-boxes with formatted 
text along with other boxes containing pictures or other types of elements.  My 
company has several leaflets, posters and stuff that have been translated (at 
great expense) into some of the languages we need.  I was thinking that it might 
be easier to separate out all the different elements, port them to a gnu package 
and then recombine them?

Sorry, i realise this is probably not really what this list is designed for but 
people on this list are more likely to be experts or at least have bumped into 
this problems before and there needs to be a way of getting around the ".pub" 
blocker that people are generally aware of.

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)