Hi all,
As of yesterday night, Scribus 1.5.1svn finally provides a working import
filter for XTG files (QuarkXPress Tags), i.e., plain text files with formatting
instructions. Until then, the XTG filter's main achievement was to not crash
Scribus and to import the files as plain text, without parsing the formatting
tags ;)
For those who regularly build bleeding edge Scribus, it's not perfect yet but
it already works very well, provided you don't use OpenType ligatures in
XPress. It nevertheless needs serious testing, though.
To test the import of XTGs into 1.5.1svn text frames, you obviously need to
compile the latest version of Scribus trunk. Once built, XTG files can be
imported into text frames just like ODT or RTF files.
If you happen to have access to either QuarkXPress, or another software that
can export XTG files (there are many export mechanisms available for
databases), or some legacy files, we'd be grateful if you could upload them to
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=11311, provided you don't violate anyone's
copyrights in the content of the XTGs. Please note that Quark only added
UniCode support in version 7 of XPress, so it would be interesting to test
non-Unicode files from different platforms and earlier XPress versions.
Moreover, we've been able to test XTG files from versions 4 to 2015. If anyone
has a copy of XPress v. 1 to 3, as well as a VM for ancient operating systems
at hand, it would help us to cover XTG from its inception to the present.
Happy testing!
Christoph
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