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  importing a publisher file into indesign

  Posted by Brian Peterson on July 8, 2005 at 7:08 pm

  I’ve got a document created in publisher that I would prefer to get into InDesign to use. Is there a way to open a publisher file or convert it to a usable format for manipulation in inDesign?

  Thank
  Brian Peterson

  Kelly Johnson replied 20 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Kelly Johnson

  July 11, 2005 at 3:00 am

  I feel your pain. Publisher? whew… so shines the problem with the desktop revolution!

  I’m not aware of any simple conversions.

  However, I don’t use many Microsoft products so I’m not sure how well Word, if at all, would convert the text itself.

  Since any actual design will need to be redone in InDesign, perhaps you can just export the text as rich text format or even ascii from Publisher?

  Or, if you can make a pdf from Publisher and import that into InDesign…
  Sometimes opening a pdf within Acrobat first and saving will allow better friendliness within InDesign. Or even opening a pdf in Illustrator.

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