Laying out Text

I'm currently attempting to work on a book written with MS Publisher in Indesign.
I haven't been able to find any free way of converting the Publisher file to an Indesign usable format so the only option I can see is to manually copy and paste each page.
The probably with that is, I have to copy and paste the text and then resize the frame so that it covers the whole page and then have to resize the text because it doesn't fit on the page properly. Due to the size of the pages in Publisher, one page of text is alot more in Pub than it is in Indesign.
Because the text is in frames, it won't just flow onto the next page.
I can't just go through each page resizing the text so it will fit.
Is there any easy way to do this or a free way to convert Publisher files to Indesign?
Thanks

I know how to save the Pub as PDF, but how do I convert the PDF to word?
I'll see how it goes.
I really don't want to pay. This is basically a one off thing. I have 109 pages in Publisher that I need to put into Indesign. It simpy isn't worth paying US$276 (if my euro calculation is correct) for a one off conversion. Plus from now on I'll only work on new stuff in Indesign, I'm not gonna use Publisher anymore so I don't need to convert anything after this thing.
If there is no free way to convert it (and if no one has that plugin already and is willing to lend a hand...) then I'll just have to do it manually.

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Prices
Unit 1                = 234          Unit 2           = 34
Unit 3                = 342           Unit4     = 9874
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chang75 wrote:
Is there a something similar to print and println that can be used to print to panels?Yes, exactly what I suggested in my previous reply.
You could also use a text component, but you won't be able to adjust the x and y of where the text is printed (not easily, anyway).

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Hi Ken,
Thanks for the reply. The project I am working on is a test project for a customer. They could potentially want a number of their educational subjects presented as an interactive text book. The intent of this first project with them is to establish a logical workflow that will allow us to efficiently estimate costs and allow for review throughout the design process. Having worked with customers on creative projects in the past I can anticipate that they will want a number of changes made once they see a working version of the interactive text book.
It is a grim reality that no project can be fully edited and planned prior to working on it and I know revisions and changes are always made once the customer can see their product. It is ok with me if there is no easy way to pass the text back and forth from the customer and me without having to reformat everything but I just want to know that is the way it works in order to provide a realistic time estimate for the project.
My hope was I would be able to export the formatted text, allow them to make edits and then reimport that formatted text. The style sheets I am using are from one of the iBooks Author templates.
Do you know if there is a way to use (or export ) this style sheet so it can be used in a Pages Document?
Or, would the best option be to have the customer install iBooks Author? This would require the customer to have a mac and the software so it doesn't work for all cases.
Another idea I was considering would be to export the book as a PDF and have the customer add markup and notes to the PDF.
All of these options do not seem too great to me.
I am open to any ideas.
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Rob

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Namaste InDesign gurus,
I have a problem at hand. Wondering if anyone has encoutered similar problem before? Any help is greatly appreciated. And if you're in San Francisco bay area - I can buy you a lunch :-)
Short description: Devanagari font in layed out in Indesign (using IndicPlus) does not export correctly to a PDF. All the ligatures are assembled and displayed in the PDF.
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I could create the PDF from MSWord directly but I'm trying to use indesign to layout my book. If InDesign cannot export to PDF I'll just have to use MSWord for my book layout. I've spend probably scores of hours trying to learn InDeisn and formatting my book content - seems like it is all going to be waste.
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Not Sanskrit, no, but plenty of Hindi, Nepali, Marathi, and other languages written in Devanagari script - so it should be possible. I don't even use IndicPlus, which by most accounts makes working with Indic text much easier.
1) Itranslator
I've never seen this, but a quick Google led me to the homepage of ITranslator for Windows, where I saw this:
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uses 8-bit true type fonts and is compatible
with Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP.
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Lastly - no, I've found InDesign to be superior for typesetting for almost all languages, but the learning curve is pretty steep, and many of the problems faced by people working in non-English languages are not easy to research when you have a problem.

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Message was edited by: GEN79
Message was edited by: GEN79

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The publication dates I can't find on any of his books, but some of them are:
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From: Murray ACP <[email protected]>
To: Igor Buitendijk <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 7:42 PM
Subject: lay out mixed up in IE7
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