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williams40824627
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January 12, 2016
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How do I convert MS Publisher files to Adobe?

  • January 12, 2016
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Looking for a simple solution to convert Publisher files from Microsoft to Adobe?  Any help would be appreciated!

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    MichaelBurk
    Participant
    February 2, 2017

    Interested to see if ID will open a Pub file as mentioned earlier.

    From the Markzware site: Pub2ID has been DISCONTINUED. Please see our Products page for current Markzware offerings. Markzware also has a File Conversion Service where we can convert your Publisher files to InDesign.

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    SJRiegel
    Legend
    January 12, 2016

    If you have a lot of files to convert, it may be worth your while to look into the pub2id converter from markzware.

    markzware.com/pub2id/convert-publisher-files-indesign-files-pub2id-cs6/

    williams40824627
    williams40824627Author
    Participant
    January 12, 2016

    I've seen this software mentioned before.  How hard is it to use???

    Sno-Isle Co-op
    Sno-Isle Co-op
    Participant
    January 12, 2016

    Save as PDF in publisher. Create a new indesign file and place the file. The place command will only show the first page of the file, so check the "Show Import Options" box for all options.

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    teresae28045038
    Participant
    May 3, 2017

    I have the same issue. That won't work because all the info w/in such as text, tables & images would need to be layed out accordingly w/ the new template.  Basically I have spec sheets which I created in Publisher, and we've now decided to go w/ InDesign and a new base template.  However I need all the info ideally transferred into the new ID templates.

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    teresae28045038
    Participant
    May 4, 2017

    Here's an update for Publisher to PDF to InDesign! I reached out to Markzware.com and this was the response. I included a PDF sample of my document (which was a product spec sheet w/ text, tables, shapes & images). All of the page parts w/ the doc now in ID were accessible for manipulation. There was minor formatting to be done.

    "If you have PDFs we do have a Plug-In for InDesign called PDF2DTP which converts PDFs into InDesign files.

    The conversion took under 10 seconds to complete on a MacMini running macOS 10.12.4 with 16GB RAM and an SSD boot drive. If you are interested in PDF2DTP,  you can get additional info and purchase it at - http://markzware.com/products/pdf2dtp/​ ."

    Cost is $199 US dollars.

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