Westerod Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 There's a mountain of people out there that would love to be able to convert Microsoft Publisher files to InDesign. Why don't you get the jump on them and a massive audience by making Affinity Publisher able to open or convert those .pub files on Mac. I think the only way to do it at the moment is to save the .pub files as PDFs them open them. Doing it this way nearly all of the subtle editing features are lost but at least you can copy and paste the basic elements. It would be great just to be able to open them in Publisher too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRM Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 Microsoft are trying to move everyone to Office 365. I DO NOT WANT TO USE REMOTE EXECUTION !! I would gladly ditch Microsoft Publisher if I could move to Affinity. However, I have a dozen or more documents which I took months to write, so I also need a conversion tool, and this must go for millions of other people. I have almost moved from PSE to Affinity Photo (although I still need an organizer/database), so would be happy to switch Publisher as well if there were forward compatibility. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seneca Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 On 2/7/2020 at 3:51 PM, DRM said: so would be happy to switch Publisher as well if there were forward compatibility I don't speak for Serif but it's unlikely that they will provide this service any time soon. If your documents created in Microsoft Publisher are composed mainly of text: books and articles, then you can export the text you have in Microsoft Publisher to Word or RTF format and import it to Affinity Publisher. If on the other hand your documents consist mainly of text boxes and pictures then you might want to try to save it as PDF and open it in Publisher. The result is really very acceptable. Quote 2017 27” iMac 4.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 • Radeon Pr 580 8GB • 64GB • Ventura 13.6.4. iPad Pro (10.5-inch) • 256GB • Version 16.4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 The Publisher file format is not publicly documented, which makes it challenging to develop support for, particularly as such formats tend to change from one release of the software to the next. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 17 minutes ago, fde101 said: The Publisher file format is not publicly documented, which makes it challenging to develop support for, particularly as such formats tend to change from one release of the software to the next. There are/were 4 companies that make/made a conversion tool to InDesign, so it's doable. Of those 3 companies, I think 2 still make one. And for online conversion, Zamar can convert .pub files to several/many formats. One company I hadn't known of before even has a converter to ID in the Microsoft Store. I have no idea how well any of them do a conversion. As a side note, Pagemaker was the first application that did this back in the day... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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