Transfering Publisher File to Pages

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Transfering Publisher File to Pages

Hi, I am trying to transfer my publisher 2003 file to my pages.
I spent several hours finding a PDF converter to convert my file to pdf. However, my catalog is like a little booklet and has items on both sides of the pages. The PDF converter only saved half of the (face side up) pages. I saved it to a thumb drive and put it in the mac, opened the pages and clicked on open existing file.
I can see it there, but it is dim. It would not open. I then tried to open it in Adobe elements and it opened. How do I get this file into pages?
Also, I played with pages to see if I could do a two sided booklet and was unable to see how it could be done, any suggestions?
Thanks for any help!

iMac8.1, Mac OS X (10.5.5)

Posted on Sep 20, 2008 6:22 PM

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Answer 1

Peggy

Level 8

41,829 points

Sep 20, 2008 7:53 PM in response to Yehagirl

Welcome to Apple Discussions

I wish I had good news for you. Nothing other than Publisher on either the Mac or PC can open Publisher files. The thing you can do with Pages is create documents that will look a lot better than anything Publisher can do. I would like to be able to open Publisher files others send me in Pages. It's something I've left feedback to the Pages team about.

I don't know what PDF printing program you're using in Windows, but the person who sends me Publisher files (the monthly church newsletter) uses Nova PDF printer (www.novapdf.com) which does get all of the pages.

I have Office 2007 in Windows XP in Parallels just for these files. I can't copy anything from Publisher in Parallels into anything in OS X. Not text, objects, etc. to Pages, AppleWorks, TextEdit, etc. Of course, even pasting from Publisher into another program in Windows doesn't work very well either. Copying & pasting one small object or bit of text into AppleWorks 6.2.2 (for Windows) pastes as a big, black blob. Pasting into Word 2007 has to be done page by page as paste special as HTML.

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Answer 2

dwb

Level 7

33,244 points

Sep 21, 2008 6:12 AM in response to Yehagirl

As Peggy noted moving a Publisher document into anything is a royal pain. My advice to new switchers has been this: Begin using your new software on new project and at least for the time being continue editing older documents in Publisher. For those wanting to make a clean break this may be disappointing advice but it was earned the hard way - personal experience.

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Answer 3

KOENIG Yvan

Level 8

41,819 points

Sep 21, 2008 10:57 AM in response to Yehagirl

Yehagirl wrote:
Also, I played with pages to see if I could do a two sided booklet and was unable to see how it could be done, any suggestions?

Use a free third party auxiliary program entitled cocoaBooklet.
<http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/14804>
I dislike to pass this kind of link but the developer's one seems to be broken.

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE dimanche 21 septembre 2008 19:56:43)

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