MS Publisher into adobe products

[brucen2120498]

Do anyone know if there is a plug-in from MS publisher to InDesign or Illustrator?

I need native file changes in MS publisher and drive a mac... so nada from MS on this.

Thanks,

Bruce

[Derek Cross]

No there isn't such a plugin, you could experiment to see if you could create a PDF from publisher and use this third-party plugin to convert from PDF to InDesign:

https://www.recosoft.com/products/pdf2id/?gclid=CjwKCAjwkPX0BRBKEiwA7THxiJMb0TgkS1WQE60gRJ2iYl6G1PBK...

[brucen2120498]

Thanks Derek,

Alas I'm going to need to make chages and save out as a native Publisher document... It's a cross platfor thing with my company. Probably have to go to the MS side of things.

I appreciate your suggestion!

Bruce

[BobLevine]

How many changes? I'm a Windows guy with Office 365 so if it's not complicated send me a private message.

If it's involved, we can discuss something mutually beneficial.

[Colin Flashman · Accepted solution]

I agree with Derek's answer. There are one of two solutions I can see but all require a third piece of software. In any instance, the artwork has to be made into a PDF first from the machine the publisher file was made on:

• Recosoft's plug-in as mentioned by Derek Cross;
• Markzware's plugin PDF2DTP: https://markzware.com/products/pdf2dtp/

It also won't be an exact replica and will need work. I recommend making a layer in the document that either plug-in creates and use the multipagepdfimporter script to put the PDF into the document so elements from the PDF can be traced or adjusted from a background layer. The script can be found here: https://indesignsecrets.com/zanelli-releases-multipageimporter-for-importing-both-pdf-and-indd-files...