dear scribuser, today @ LGM, i've attended the libreoffice conference on file formats reverse engineering. fridrich and valentin were proud of the fact that scribus has started implementing the support for using their library to import publisher files.
and now they want bug reports! so if you have access to publisher files, please get the scribus trunk, compile it, import your files, report bugs on what does not work as you would expect! if you want help out, please get in touch with me, so that we can find out how the process should work. if you can't compile the scribus trunk, we should be able to find a solution: don't worry! and there are good news for the future, too! i've asked, what they would think about reverse engineering the indesign file format. and they didn't say no :-) but they need one or more people preparing for them lot of test .idd files. those files will have to introduce one element at a time (and be accompanied by a description of what the file contains. as a text file: fridrich and valentin won't be able to see the content of your file before having reverse engineered it!). it's a lot of work also for the person(s) preparing the file and it requires: - having a copy of indesign (if possible correctly licensed) - being willed (and skilled) to do very systematic work any volunteer? greetings from madrid a.l.e
