How to open .pub files.

[Anthony Irven Scott]

On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 08:23:56 +1100, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 14:59 -0600, Kipton Moravec wrote:
>> I was sent .pub file that I need to open and print.
>>
>> I believe it is Microsoft Publisher format.
>>
>> I tried to open with OpenOffice but the filter opened up and I could not
>> find Microsoft Publisher as one of the choices.
>>
>> How do you open a .pub file?
>> Is there something to convert it to something OpenOffice can read?
>> Any other options?
>
> You really can't open a .pub file with Linux. Even the MS world is
> jerked at .pub files. You have to have a copy of Publisher to deal with
> them. MS Office can't either.
>
> My private musing on the topic is that MS wanted something to compete
> with Adobe and pdf files. I've got a couple of people within our
> Non-Profit that shove .pub files at me, and I go on a rant. Now,
> Publisher is being discontinued, from what I've read and hopefully it
> will die like a Mandrake Root, kicking and screaming out of it's pot.
>
> We can thank all of those "Office Skills" classes in Vo-Techs for
> pushing it off on the unwary as a necessary office tool. It makes them
> feel bad, and I came off looking like a arsehole, for pointing out that
> Office, with a template, will handle the chore without buying another
> package like Publisher or it's updates. I have issues with our
> Non-Profit taking $5 from a little widowed Church Lady and giving it to
> the world's Richest Man. It makes my teeth grind. Ric
>
>
We need more people like you, Ric.

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