As koffice (and abiword) will be switching to the OO-format and they need extensions for some things wouldn't make sense switching the scribus-format to OO as well? As it probably needs some extensions one could simply give the siles a different extension and then one might get the OO-team to incorporate the extensions at some point of time.
-- Johannen Wilm On Sunday 15 June 2003 19:19, Peter Linnell wrote: > On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 13:07, Michael Hopcroft wrote: > > I don't have my copy of Scribus running yet, so this may seem like a > > premature and/or impertinent question. > > I'm a Linux user who is using OpenOffice.org 1.0.2 as my word > > processor. I'm pretty sure Scribus can import Word files, > > It can't. Be advised, Sun and the Open Office team have spent a > considerable amount of time developing these filters. Word > OO & OO > > >Word. I think they have done a remarkable job. > > MS Word file formats are internally very messy and even Word has > problems crossing different versions at times. IMNSHO developing an > import filer for Word would be a complete waste of developer time. Word > files can bring a lot of ugly baggage when importing to other apps. > > > a format to > > which OpenOffice.org saves. However, it's native file format is much > > easier to work with. It also appears to be the default Linux word > > processor in most distros. What I'd like to know 9either while or before > > I install Scribus) is whether the program has any support whatsoever for > > OpenOffice.org's native file format or whether I would need to save to a > > different format to import the file into Scribus. > > Save as a text file - which can have custom encodings in the latest Beta > of OO. > > Import as text, which in Scribus 0.9.11 can read custom encodings. > > This will support text in encodings other than 8859-1, like CE and > Russian. > > As for an OO import filter, this would be much easier as a.) It is well > documented and b. there is now an XML export in OO 1.1 beta. c. Source > code for OO is available. > > Hope that helps, > Peter
