Post by: Xairbusdriver on October 28, 2006, 07:42:25 PM
) She thinks it will help me since I now have to photocopy the handwritten calendars a couple of times a month. ( What she doesn't realize is that I always copy the calendars for the coming months, not just the current one. I don't know if she'll be doing everything on these ".pub" documents from now. The calendar on our site is already into the third week of November and will soon be into the full month. I can't wait until these calendars are 'published' during the last week of the preceding month, at the earliest. ) This 'scheme' works fine, I suppose, for the rest of the Staff, and I appreciate her considering my time spent copying. 
Of course, I don't have MS Publisher nor do I intend to buy it ( should it even be available for the Mac! ). I suppose I could download Neoffice(sp?) and see if it would work, but that sounds like using a 100 ton dozer to remove the leaves in the back yard!
So, anyone have a way of converting these ".pub" 'calendars' to a cross-platform 'animal'? Can Publisher do PDFs?
I have my doubts...
Post by: fireprizm on October 28, 2006, 09:42:36 PM
Hope this would help you
Post by: gunug on October 28, 2006, 10:32:57 PM
http://www.pdf995.com/
You can download it and use it for free but they make you look at an advertising page (usually something else they sell).
Post by: Paddy on October 29, 2006, 12:16:27 AM
Macs don't do Publisher...no how, no way.(believe me, I've tried!)
Other than turning it into a PDF, there isn't much you can do with it - or nothing that actually preserves formatting etc. Nothing in NeoOffice will open it with the formatting intact, though you might be able to extract the text, but not with any useful result. Word will extract unformatted text, but heaven help you if there are columns or anything and I'm sure a calendar would turn into a royal mess.
What exactly is everyone trying to accomplish here? Who and what is the calendar for?
If you want an nifty, free, embedded calendar for your web site that more than one person can update (even your church secretary) check out Google Calendars. I just added one to one of my sites. They're great.
If, on the other hand, you do need a print version of the Publisher thingy, converting it to PDF should do the trick. No need to pay for anything - either CutePDF or the opensource PDFCreator should do the trick.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/win/28766
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=57796
Post by: jepinto on October 29, 2006, 07:21:16 AM
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Open Outlook
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From the Go menu, select Folder List
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Click the plus (+) sign or arrow next to Public Folders
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Locate your public folder
HINT: Click the plus signs or arrows as necessary to review the subfolders.
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Select the folder name you would like your calendar to be a subset of
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From the File menu, select New ยป Folder...
The Create New Folder dialog box appears.
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In the Name text box, type a name for the calendar
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From the Folder contains pull-down list, select the appropriate option
NOTE: For a calendar, select Calendar Items.
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From the scroll box box, confirm the location of the new calendar
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Click OK
The new calendar is created.
Post by: cdub1988 on October 29, 2006, 03:21:04 PM
I'll second what Paddy suggested.
CutePDF works fine.
I've got it installed on the XP partition on this machine and once you install Ghostscript (which is downloadable for free from the same site), it will show up as a printer in her print menu.
So once she's got your calendar done in Publisher, she can print it to a file just like you would in OS X, except she will choose the CutePDF writer in the drop-down list of printers.
CutePDF Writer Free
Take care,
Chris
Post by: Parker on October 30, 2006, 10:52:19 AM
Tried to open a publisher file on a mac
wtih no success
and no chance of it according to research i did on google.
publisher is the WORST application that Microsoft wroteyes... worse than windows ME
Post by: Xairbusdriver on November 01, 2006, 03:03:00 PM
Jennie, you have about 9 too many steps for this lady!
Am I to understand that Windows cannot create a PDF on its own?!
The calendar is simply printed and handed out to the other 4 people on the staff. Matter of fact, one day last week she asked me how to save a file on "Drive E" so she could print it on the color ink jet connected to one computer. Apparently, no one can access the printer from another computer on the LAN. Frankly, I'm almost surprized that any one knows the machines are capable of talking to one another. One person brings a pure text file to the office from home and hands it to the secretary. Should I suggest that he could simply e-mail it to her and use the floppy for something else?
I think this secretary is the only one using Publisher so she's not really 'sharing' them that way. I don't want to become the Windows Support Tech, so I'll just continue to make copies of any calendar I can find.
We have a mini-calendar on our home page which links to the events on that day on another ( "Events"
) page. The calendar is simply a 7 column by 5 - 6 row table with appropriate entries for Month and Day of Week and each day number ( including the few stragglers from previous and upcoming months ). I usually delete the useless dates after the first two weeks of a month pass and fill in the data for the first two weeks of the next one. Of course, the Events page may have data for happenings many months in the future and pictures of many past events, as well. The trick is getting people to inform me of these events more than a month in advance!
Post by: Parker on November 01, 2006, 03:07:03 PM
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Am I to understand that Windows cannot create a PDF on its own?!
yes... you are hearing correctly
windoze CAN NOT create a PDF on its own
Post by: gunug on November 01, 2006, 03:52:11 PM
XABD - Dealing with Windows is "always" less than easy! Just think of all the new expletives you're learning!
Post by: Parker on November 01, 2006, 04:27:33 PM
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Before OS X MAC's couldn't save to PDF's either without paying for Acrobat. Adobe made a deal with Apple for OS X that they didn't make with Micro$oft (smaller MAC market, less of a risk)
I guess you learn something new every day :-\
Post by: Xairbusdriver on November 01, 2006, 05:00:43 PM
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Before OS X MAC's couldn't save to PDF's either without paying for Acrobat.
But that was ages ago! Maybe M$ couldn't afford to make a deal with Adobe. Installing any software on those machines is not really an alternative. And I don't intend to become the 'support' guy. That may be a job with great security, but I'm not up to the 'challenges' or the pain!
Post by: Parker on November 01, 2006, 05:10:41 PM
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But that was ages ago! Maybe M$ couldn't afford to make a deal with Adobe.
Microsoft (in my opinion) is a group of crooks.
They stole Apple's GUI Operating System, Macintosh OS
Put some generic name on it
Made it uglier and not as useful
and boxed it
So the fact that they maybe couldn't afford a deal with Adobe is bull in my opinion,
especially since Gates is the richest man in the world
and Jobs is #140 on the list.
(sry to like bash you Jim...)
Post by: Xairbusdriver on November 02, 2006, 08:55:39 PM
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sry to like bash you Jim...
No apology necessary, in a few years you'll be better able to recognize what some people call subtle 'humor'. It's very similar to what many call a 'botched/broken/misunderstood' joke!
Post by: Parker on November 03, 2006, 10:36:07 AM
Post by: jepinto on November 03, 2006, 07:27:55 AM
subtley-thine name is confusing
Post by: Xairbusdriver on November 04, 2006, 04:30:31 PM