Icy EyeG wrote: > Hi! > I'm new to Scribus, so I don't know if anyone has talked about this or not. > I love the program, but one thing I'd like to have would be an easy > convertion of Publisher (2003/2007) files. I already saw that you don't > intend to port proprietary formats (and I do understand the reasons). > However, I think that no one talks about the fact that Publisher also saves > files in MHT format. The 2003 and 2007 editions (at least) can edit these > MHT files, as if they were regular PUB files, because all the style > information is saved in HTML tags and metadata (most of it localized between > the <head></head>). As a MHT file is easily edited in a text editor and > Scribus uses a XML-like format (and, for what I understand HTML support is > on the roadmap), wouldn't it be easier to add a "Publisher MHT file import" > function, instead of a "Publisher PUB file import" function? > The users would still have to convert their PUB files one by one to the MHT > format, but it would be a huge improvement to increase the popularity of > Scribus. > > Please tell me what you think.
What about writing a nice XSL stylesheet and transforming these files (MHT, XHTML, INX, whatever) with a XSLT processor? I might be wrong, but this job could be done outside of Scribus and without engaging the sparse resources of the Scribus team. Maciej
