John Beardmore wrote: >> I don't know about that ... I've found InDesign CS 3 is pretty solid for >> general tasks. >> > > Perhaps. We stopped upgrading InDesign at v1.5 when they tried to get > us to buy into CS. And having steered us towards InDesign, they then > released Pagemaker 7 anyway. We also heard reports that users of > InDesign 2 had problems importing our InDesign 1.5 documents which > wasn't exactly encouraging. > Those file format issues seem to be pretty universal in DTP apps unfortunately.
For example, QuarkXPress 7 at work just crahes when a user imports a Quark 4 document and tries to substitute fonts. This is after three bugfix point releases. To work around the issue, users have to import without substitution, copy & paste the doc contents into a new document, and then use the usage dialog to apply the font substitutions. This means you can't provide a predefined substitution map as part of an SOE so font remapping just works. I've never been impressed with the import capabilities of InDesign either, especially importing Quirk 4 files. Then again, at least that's a "foreign" format. In any case, I think I'm getting a bit OT for [scribus]. -- Craig Ringer
