Page Maker Files ???

[Arun Shrimali]

Thanks for the short answer ...........
But another options encaurage me to do experiments.
I have the Pagemaker files that has text and images, printing them to PDF or
EPS, does I further edit the PDF files with some editor (pl suggest one, I
think OO3.0 is coming with PDF editor )

Thanks

Arun

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 7:13 AM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:

> I'm not sure why you would toss out an answer that you don't know works
> or even bother to check...
>
> http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Why_Scribus_doesn%
> 27t_support_QuarkXpress_and_other_major_publishing_applications<http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Why_Scribus_doesn%27t_support_QuarkXpress_and_other_major_publishing_applications>
>
> to the original poster...short answer is that you can't really do that.
>
> You might be able to print them to PDF or to an EPS file and then edit
> the PDF - but I doubt it's possible. If you need to get the text out of
> the files, you probably could print them to PDF from Pagemaker and then
> use something like pdftk to get the text out of it.
>
> Scribus is a very good program - clearly not up to Pagemaker, In Design
> or Quark Express standards but certainly usable in its own right.
>
> Craig
>
> On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 06:55 +0530, TV Sivaraman wrote:
> > Hi:
> > Try using Scribus to import Page Maker Files, I do not think OO can
> > import these files. Scribus is a DTP like Page Maker and is now part
> > of FC9 distribution. If it is not installed in your system, find out
> > if installed by sudo rpm -q scribus, use yum install scribus.
> > Sivaraman.
> >
> > 2008/8/25 Arun Shrimali <arun.reso at gmail.com>
> >         Dear All,
> >
> >         I have a large number of Adobe Page Maker files. I would like
> >         to convert / import them to Open Office. Does anybody know any
> >         utility which can help me in converting my files.
>
>
>
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