On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 08:17, Peter Linnell wrote: > With DTP applications, converting between different applications is not > trivial and even the commercial converters are not perfect. DTP files and > Pagemaker, in particular, are very complex internally. There is only on > application which I know does it well and that is InDesign 2+.
Even InDesign 2's inporter is far from perfect. I've haven't yet managed to get it to crash on a Quark file (unlike, sadly, Quark), but I've had it get layering wrong, misposition elements, etc. Given how much work Adobe put into the importer, I think that says a lot about the difficulty involved in importing files from DTP apps. What's funny is that if the big guys ever feel pressured to do a Scribus importer, it'll probably be dramatically easier than for anything else. Especially if a DTD is available. Craig Ringer
