Comments on: Opening Microsoft Publisher Files in InDesign

By: KRISS LABER

KRISS LABER — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:47:23 +0000

Just coming back to this post after 3 years. Not sure which is more amusing, Patrick’s diatribe about my elitist opinion or Ren thinking I’m a “he.”

I didn’t mean to insult people with design talent who produce products in Publisher. I primarily design manuals. While I am extremely technically proficient, there are lots of people more talented than me.

That said, I do not want Bob’s secretary who thinks she’s the bomb handing me her proposal with 15 fancy fonts in it and expecting me to send it to the printer. “I’m sorry Mary. I know you worked really hard on this, but we just can’t use Publisher files. Let me work something up for you and let Bob look at it.”

By: karunamurthi

karunamurthi — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:50:28 +0000

Hi Friends,

How to automated the layout for indesign CS4. For example Head level 1 for 46p width and following the text area is 30p. Any idea for thru XSLT based on XML.

By: ren

ren — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:18:36 +0000

@Patrick.

No…it doesnt seem elitist to me what Laberday said at all. More often than not the people who have Publisher and use it ARE undereducated in what is expected of them, and ARE jersks about it. The number of times people have come into my friends print shop…complaining and moaning because things look different. It has nothing to do with the design. It has to do with the times. Things are moving forward, and I can understand if poeple cannot aford the Adobe package, but then those people still have no right whatsoever to complain and moan when other people try their hardest to make things work for them. I say Laberday should have as much fun with his ’sorry no publisher’ policy as possible. Its about time we realized the customer is NOT always right. More often than not, their an idiot. And they are jerks about it.

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:12:05 +0000

@Flavien: I do not know what “big and heavy” means. Why can you not export to PDF? That is strange. Have you tried this Markzware’s Pub2ID to convert to InDesign? Perhaps your advertising/publishing agency can convert it for you.

By: Flavien PUEL

Flavien PUEL — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:53:35 +0000

Hi,my problem is closely related to the topic, so I’ll just post here. I have designed this huge billboard on Publisher (dunno how to use the Adobe Suite correctly), and have to send it to a advertising/publishing agency. Thing is, this billboard is so big (and heavy) that i can’t convert it to PDF, or copy-drag/paste it onto InDesign. Long story short, I am really stuck. Is there anything I can do ?
Please forgive the mistakes/mistypes I might make, i’m French (:

By: Thomas G. Barry

Thomas G. Barry — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:30:04 +0000

I suggest that within your Publisher file…Click Edit and Select All. Then Click Edit and Copy. Then open up MS Excel and click Edit – Past Special and paste as a Bitmap. Then just adjust the picture as you would any other picture in MS Excel. Then save as a PDF, etc.

By: Gavin Anderson

Gavin Anderson — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:42:28 +0000

Oh, and they have a great plugin for converting all those pesky little Quark files into InDesign, too.

By: Gavin Anderson

Gavin Anderson — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:41:43 +0000

I have been using the Markzware plugin since beta, and I have to say that it is BY FAR the best option out there. Well worth the price. The least amount of “clean up” needed after conversion.

By: Camnio

Camnio — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:19:32 +0000

was there a solution for illustrator?

By: George

George — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:18:53 +0000

The issue should be addressed as a problem only when being an “indesign-designer” can not match the “indesign-delivering-client”. The discussion here turned into about who is using the right tool, which is quite irritating. I was bugged by Publishers rather sluggish temperament and resource eating performance, “everything taking hours, etc”. But often the .pub file is already there, it has already been worked on, often for man hours or days. So whoever can afford pointing fingers at a customer about their “bad unprofessional software” is more than often not competent enough to satisfy the customer in the first place.