I would recommend the OpenCD. It contains a collection of Open Source programs for Windows. <a href="http://www.theopencd.org/">http://www.theopencd.org/</a> The OpenCD includes current versions of OpenOffice.org 2.2, Scribus (desktop publishing), and PDF Creator, among others. If you standardize on PDF for submissions you will bot have any compatibility problems. A student could "print" a MS Publisher file or a Docx or Works file to PDF using PDF Creator. OpenOffice and Scribus both offer native PDF export. Jim Anderson <div>On 6/7/07, Rob Owens <<a href="mailto:rowens@bio-chemvalve.com">rowens@bio-chemvalve.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Give those kids a copy of OpenOffice for home! In the meantime, they can download and install PDFCreator here: <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/</a> Then they can save their term paper as a pdf. There are tools in Linux to strip the text out of a pdf. The command on my Ubuntu Feisty system is pdftotext and it's part of a package called poppler-utils. -Rob -----Original Message----- From: <a href="mailto:k12osn-bounces@redhat.com">k12osn-bounces@redhat.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:k12osn-bounces@redhat.com">k12osn-bounces@redhat.com</a>] On Behalf Of Derek Jaques Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 11:09 AM To: <a href="mailto:k12osn@redhat.com">k12osn@redhat.com</a> Subject: [K12OSN] Open Office Does anyone have any ideas how to open .pub (MS publisher files) .wps (MS works defaut) or .docx (Vista word??) files? I have a plethora of students who have term papers in these formats from home. If Open Office cannot open them, is there another program that will with the default K12LTSP distro packages? Thank you in advance. Derek Jaques Corbett School District _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</a>> _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org"> http://www.k12os.org</a>> </blockquote></div>