help, how to convert publisher files to word?

i've been reading some of the previous posts, and it seems i might need to go in the direction of a pdf file instead of word, but how?

thanks

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!"...
i've been reading some of the previous posts, and it seems i might
need to go in the direction of a pdf file instead of word, but how?

A PDF is infinitely better than a Word file for commercial print (especially
a Word file that has come out of Publisher)

There are many commercial and freeware utilities for PDF out there,
including
Adobe Acrobat at www.adobe.com
PDF995 at www.pdf995.com
PDF-Xchange at www.docu-track.com
Win2PDF at http://www.daneprairie.com
GhostScript at http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
(This is good in combination with GSView from
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/
Jaws at http://www.pdfsoftware.com/html/download.html

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Sherry, .tiff files are the same as any bitmap image, they are not text. If your
scanner came with the OCR software, then this is the way to go. Microsoft's Document
Imaging does have OCR capabilities, look in the help, read the section "searching for
text".
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"Sherry" wrote in message
...
I may not be explaining myself very well. I DO have Publisher. I must be
missing something here. I scanned the document with Microsoft Office
Document Scanning. Then I hit save it as a TIFF file and try to open it in
Publisher and the only way I can open it is as a 'Recover Text From Any
File" type in the drop down box. Then the formatting is ALL screwed up, big
time! I thought Publisher could open TIFF files??? Any ideas or
siggestions or am I just missing something here???
Sherry (Thanks)


"JL Paules" wrote in message
...
You edit it in Publisher. If YOU don't have Publisher and you're getting
the
file from someone else, then you really don't have much of a choice. The
Word file you get from Publisher has no formatting, no pictures, nothing
except text.

Amy,

I believe Kinko's has a program you can download that will convert your
Pub file into a pdf that they can print from.

Mike

ajt wrote:
thanks for such a prompt answer.

my problem is... i'm a teacher and i just made our school yearbook using publisher. i live in the u.s. virgin islands and the cheapest color printing i can find her is $1.50 per copy- ouch!-, so i decided to go to kinko's online, or another printing site where you can upload your files and then they print, bind, and ship to you.
anyway, the site i wanted to use doesn't accept publisher files. i suppose i don't have to convert to word, there are other options, but i'm not familiar with any of them. i was just hoping there was a way.

thanks for the trouble... amy