In the case of the company MarkzWare, who produces third-party Quark-to-InDesign and InDesign-to-Quark converter plugins, what I heard from some Quark senior official was that "technically, it's illegal" - so apparently, they built their converter by reverse-engineering the undocumented Quark file format. Quark didn't provide a specification to them, and no fee is being charged.
Quark didn't like the situation, but they didn't take any action. I don't know how it works on the Adobe side. On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine < alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Peter Nermander <peter at nermander.se> > wrote: > >>> The point is that nobody is saying "We don't want to make Scribus able > >>> to read the Indesign file format", it's more "We can not make Scribus > >>> able to read the Indesign file format because Adobe would not let us > >>> have the specification for the file format without charging a fee for > >>> each instance of Scribus installed." > > > >> What is this claim based on? > > > > It's not a claim, it's a conclusion. > > The question is still on :) > > Alexandre Prokoudine > http://libregraphicsworld.org > > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20130510/1a99e741/attachment.html>
