I guess I'll make a blog posting on Microsoft Publisher since I just made one on Microsoft FrontPage. You can squint your eyes and sort of see the following as cut from the same cloth:
- Macromedia Illustrator
- Adobe Freehand
- Corel Draw
- Microsoft Publisher
HOWEVER, there was no exporting Publisher stuff to .eps or .ai file types to get them into the other vector graphics programs. This is sort of the opposite problem of it being hard to open something you made in Illustrator in Inkscape. What you had to do was save out an Adobe PDF and then suck the PDF into Illustrator and manhandle its goofiness there. In a PDF many lines of copy in a nice paragraph have a habit of entering Illustrator as many sets of text in independent text blocks and sometimes there would be breaks in text between two bounding boxes on the same line of text. You only ever saw Publisher creations because someone, not a designer, started there not knowing any better.
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