2010/8/10 Owen <rcook at pcug.org.au> > > > > > It's pretty standard practice to specify that only certain file > > formats are acceptable. The burden is on the producer of the files, > > not the one receiving them and certainly not on the developers of > > Scribus or any other DTP program to accommodate them. > > > > Also seems to be fairly standard practice to ignore these requests. I > have come to the conclusion that many people have no idea what you are > talking about. > > Authors will spend days preparing their article in Word, fancy fonts > and underlining etc, only to be bitterly disappointed that the editor > strips this formatting away. (I WILL NEVER WRITE ANOTHER THING FOR > YOU!! BOOM BOOM!!) >
If only the author would have asked on the first place... "what do you need?" > > Copy and Paste is one of the best weapons in the arsenal. > I would simply take away the word "best" from this sentence! :) People use cut/paste, yes. Is this the way to go... mostly depends on the skills at both ends of the chain... > > I was actually surprised by this thread as I don't think I have seen a > publisher file for probably 8 or so years. Well... it happens ! The ocean is big. There are lots of fishes, at all depths! > I wonder if places like Windows Live will take and display and maybe > convert .pub files. > Google Docs may do something similar > > > -- > > > > Owen > > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20100810/4bbc4086/attachment.htm>
