Given that Markzware has discontinued the plugin and if you're dealing with a fair number of the beasties - it might almost be practical - even cost effective to just get a copy of Publisher (heresy!) just for the purpose of extracting the text and images! I am already running Windows in Parallels for Mac on one of my workstations for the primary purpose of testing email campaigns in another legendary PITA - MS Outlook. That never happens.īut the majority of Publisher files that come across my desk are essentially in the category of "If you wanna help, don't help!" or getting a bunch of edits and revisions - after you've gotten the file. in an institutional situation and Publisher is the management decreed application, and you're the poor sap responsible for making well-meaning, but unprofessionally prepared documents actually printable. The P ublish Online feature of InDesign helps you repurpose your print documents by creating their digital version. I do see the investment point of the $200 price tag, might very well be worthy if you have to to a lot of it - i.e. Learn how to publish, share, and manage InDesign documents online. The contents of a publisher file might as well be locked away in the Arc of the Covenant. The filespec is almost the publishing equivalent of deep encryption, and print vendors despise it. I’m hoping they can roll with it.I have a grumpy tendency to return Publisher files to the client. It is, however, the first one with Affinity and I wasn’t expecting this hiccup. They simply asked for working files this time. If your printer still insists on packaged Indesign files then you can either use Indesign or find another printer. So you really have 1 option if you do not want to use Indesign, you need need to supply print ready PDF's. You will never have a perfect conversion. At the end of the day they are 2 page layout programs made by 2 different companies. Sure they may be able to improve things but it will never be 100% compatibility between the two. Regarding Serif addressing Indesign and their file I don't think this is not something they really can do beyond what they have now with IDML files. Cutting out a middle step that is really not needed. A properly made PDF with crops and bleeds gets things moving much faster then opening a working file and preparing a PDF after that for print. Personally I only want working files if I need to make serious changes or alterations. You addressed supplying them a PDF, which is something I know we prefer here as do other local printers. It saddens me because I much prefer this software and don’t care for Adobe in general. I will not be able to use Publisher in the future for large projects unless this is addressed. They get a PDF this time and hopefully they can use it. If you look at my other comments I addressed this. Make life easy on yourself and everyone else and stick to what the team is using. You will create nothing but headaches trying to make something work as it will never be 100% and only create more work for the team.Īffinity has some great software, powerful and extremely affordable, but it is not a replacement for Adobe in a collaborative environment. Strangely, back in the times of Adobe PageMaker, there was a Publisher to PageMaker converter. If you are collaborating you should all be using the same software. If this is a Microsoft Publisher file, then if you are able to obtain a PDF of the Publisher file, you could then use another of Markzware's plug-ins that is mentioned within this thread, or Recosoft's PDF2ID plug-in. I would check with them if they can use Publisher as you may be wasting your time trying to get Publisher to package. Adobe is the standard here and I am assuming they would be asking for a packaged Indesign file. Are you sure your printer can even use a Publisher file? I don't know any print or design house that uses any of the Affinity software.
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