Downloading Publisher FIles

[mh53j_fe]

Is there a free MS Publisher previewer that I can download? I am a webmaster for my church, and the church secretary sends me a copy of the Church newsletter in MS Publisher format to upload to our web site. I have tried several times to convert to a web page, and I always spend lots of time reformatting the file

I would like to offer a simple link to a *.pub file that anybody can download. For those users that do not have Publisher installed on their workstation, I would like to offer them a link to a site that offers a free Previewer. I know this type of software exists for Excel and Word, but I haven't bee able to find it for Publisher. Can anybody help

Thank you in advance for your help.

 

[David Bartosik - MS MVP]

No there is no viewer. The common sharing method is to use a 3rd party pdf
converter.

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Is there a free MS Publisher previewer that I can download? I am a

webmaster for my church, and the church secretary sends me a copy of the
Church newsletter in MS Publisher format to upload to our web site. I have
tried several times to convert to a web page, and I always spend lots of
time reformatting the file.

I would like to offer a simple link to a *.pub file that anybody can

download. For those users that do not have Publisher installed on their
workstation, I would like to offer them a link to a site that offers a free
Previewer. I know this type of software exists for Excel and Word, but I
haven't bee able to find it for Publisher. Can anybody help?

 

[JL Paules]

What some people are doing is to get the 30 day trial of Pub 2003 (if their
system will support it) and use that as a viewer. David has the better
idea - convert your files to a .pdf so that everyone, regardless of the
hardware they own, can view your files. Plus they will be smaller.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

Is there a free MS Publisher previewer that I can download? I am a

webmaster for my church, and the church secretary sends me a copy of the
Church newsletter in MS Publisher format to upload to our web site. I have
tried several times to convert to a web page, and I always spend lots of
time reformatting the file.

I would like to offer a simple link to a *.pub file that anybody can

download. For those users that do not have Publisher installed on their
workstation, I would like to offer them a link to a site that offers a free
Previewer. I know this type of software exists for Excel and Word, but I
haven't bee able to find it for Publisher. Can anybody help?

 

[analog]

I must not understand the problem. Why not just get Publisher and
generte the html in the save as webpage feature? Bill needs the
money, so be sure to buy a copy at retail!

The only problem with this approach is the newer versions produce
bloated html. But if the newsletter is onlty a few pages long, it
should work just fine. You thereby avoid the.pdf file kludge (some of
your viewers may not have or may not like Acrobat). We use .pdf only
when absolutely necessary here.

Syd

 

[JL Paules]

His point is that not all of his target viewer have Publisher. I have the
same situation in that I produced two newsletters and I certainly do not
expect them to buy Publisher just so they can read my files electronically.
..pdfs are ideal when you don't want to worry about who has what
software/hardware. Use Macs? That's fine. Have an 8 year old computer - not
a problem. Now days all new prebuilt systems have Acrobat Reader installed
at the time of purchase - and it's been that way for several years. If any
of my audience are savvy enough to build their own computers, they
understand the .pdf files are commonplace.

And I don't have to worry about bloated .html files. Silly me, I've been
using FrontPage to do the related websites. I'm kind of funny that way - I
prefer using the proper tool for the job.

 

[Don Schmidt]

Your solution has a drawback. If you get Publisher to view Publisher files,
then it follow to get Lotus 1-2-3 for 1-2-3 files, Word for Word files,
Quicken for Quicken files and so forth.

Using "Portable Document Format" (pdf) files you can share documents with
all without difficulty.
And if you able to use the free Acrobat Reader 6.01 you can have "Mike" or
"Mary" read the file to you.

Hmmm..... could be Syd has stock in a software supply company??? <G>

 

[analog]

Umm, I merely proposed converting the newsletter to .html in
Publisher, then putting that on the web. A simple and elegant
solution, no? I never proposed leaving the newsletter in native
Publisher file format.

We use .pdf files for schematics and for certain technical documents
at our website, but avoid it if a simple .html page will do the trick.

Syd

On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 05:15:45 -0700, "Don Schmidt" <Retired

 

[Don Schmidt]

What ever works for you is your winner.

Some of the advantages of attached pdf files are: small file, they are an
accepted form of file sharing, easily shared with others, (I believe html
files create a file and a folder with one or more files)

If you ever get an interest in pdf programs let me know and I'll share a PC
Magazine article comparing ~15 pdf creating programs.
Some of the information is a bit dated, i.e., PDF-XChange ver 2.5 (a 4 star
tie with two others) in the comparison and has been replaced with ver 3.0
(it's Great!)

Take care,