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Re: Replacement for DOS Ventura Publisher for publishing book
Subject:Re: Replacement for DOS Ventura Publisher for publishing book From:"Mike O." <obie1121 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 16 Feb 2005 06:28:33 -0800 (PST)
Replacement for DOS Ventura Publisher for publishing book
Subject: Replacement for DOS Ventura Publisher for publishing book
From: Phoebe Minias <phoebe -at- MIT -dot- EDU>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:51:39 -0500
Phoebe Minias wrote:
> I'm forwarding the following email from a colleague.
> He is looking to replace a very old DOS-based version
> of Ventura Publisher that is currently used to format
> a tagged ASCII file generated from a database. Apparently
> the latest version of Ventura does not work because it
> does not accommodate special characters. Any suggestions
> would be much appreciated.
Depending on what kind of database, I believe this could be done by a
Word template reading the data directly from the database (bypassing
the tagged output). You'd need some specialized VBA macros. I suppose
there are similar facilities in FrameMaker, maybe even in OpenOffice.
Mike O.
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