[Scribus] silly idea for pr...

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Iami wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> that might be a very (I mean VERY!) silly idea, but still....
> What about putting high priority on developing a really good xml scheme
> for 
> Scribus and then apply for it to be approved as an ISO standard? 
> 

I dont think we are up to proposing ISO standards... dont you have to be a
member?


Of course it 
> would need to define many features that Scribus doesn't (yet) cover, but I 
> think that would not be a problem. You could design all the features you 
> would like to have in Scribus in the future, and then slowly (well
> hopefully 
> quickly... ;-) implement them in Scribus.
> Advantages (in an ideal case): put pressure on Adobe and Quark to
> implement 
> this format at least as an export feature, thus improving compatibility 
> between different apps, and having scribus as the first (and probably
> only) 
> app to use the new standard as their primary format.
> 

I'm not sure of that. There are already standards like ODF and FOP which
arent
supported as export options in Quark or Indesign AFAIK.



> Just a thought... (I'm very good in having ideas and thoughts that mean a
> lot 
> of work for other people while I can't really help them in getting it
> done... 
> sorry ;-)
> 

... and that's the main drawback.

Another drawback would be to have a standard as primary fileformat. That
limits
your flexibility in developing your application in a significant way.

That said there are other options for exchanging data between DTP apps:

- ODF or a subset thereof
- the native XML output of InDesign
- Quark XTags
- some homegrown XML+XSLT scripts
- SVG
- PDF

Also direct import/export of DTP fileformats is only important for
migration,
not for workflows. I dont know if lossless import of DTP fileformats would
even be possible since the DTP applications' featuresets are so different.

I think it's more important to enable good workflows, 
eg. OO.o + InkScape + Gimp -> Scribus -> PDF

Currently it's more important for us to improve the import of textformats
and PDF, and implement export of tagged PDF, PDF/A etc.

/Andreas
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