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I'm pretty sure the options consist of

  1. Just don't do it (use a nice open standard file format). Not great when someone sends you something.

  2. Translate the format on Windows. I think you need Publisher, the viewer won't even print. But you can download a trial version for a once off (been there, done that).

  3. Submit the file for online translation to PDF. www.pdfonline.com/convert-pdf/

  4. Use a Windows VM, wine, crossover office, Win4Lin, or otherwise run Publisher "under" linux.

What I really want to do is convert it to something nicer natively under Linux.

Peter
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Libreoffice does support opening publisher files.

Paul de Vrieze
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I've just used Zamzar to do this. Its a free online service and took about 10 minutes.

It did mess up the format somewhat, but I got all the text, graphics and clip art, which I can now use in Scribus, or tidy up in LibreOffice Writer.

Kazark
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J Tidmarsh
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Such a tool appears to not exist - the search I did only came back with the following article:

Why Can't I View .PUB Files?
It’s one of the great mysteries of the world – why don’t Microsoft provide a free viewer for Microsoft Publisher (.pub) files?
As yet, it hasn’t been explained and there doesn’t seem to be anyone presenting a third party alternative. The result of this of course is that anyone wishing to view a Microsoft Publisher document must do so on a PC with the application installed on it, or else view a printed copy of the document!

Read more: http://www.brighthub.com/computing/windows-platform/articles/52304.aspx#ixzz0V75pJTkg

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warren
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OODraw and Scribus are both excellent Linux publisher alternatives i would recommend, though i think exporting a Publisher file to either of these programs would be harder to do

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