[ubuntu-uk] Searching for a Killer App

[Alec Wright]

On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 12:56 +0100, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've managed to convince my parents that Ubuntu is for them (My mum just got a new laptop with Vista and Office 2007 and thinks that it is completely unintuitive!) however there is one issue.
> 
> They use Microsoft Publisher.
> 
> Whilst there are many tools out there that will act as a replacement, I am unable to find a program that will load and save MS Pub files.
> 
> Can anyone help?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> M.
> --
> Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
> Lug-Master (http://www.thanet.lug.org.uk),
> Dad (http://www.helpmeimadad.com/),
> Ubuntu User( http://www.ubuntu.com/)
> 
> 
You could use both publisher and scribus/OOo draw, slowly making the
change. Carry on using publisher for the pubs you've already got, but
make all new ones in scribus/OOo draw :) that way, you'll eventually
have everything in scribus/OOo.
-- 
Alec Wright