[scribus] Opening MS Publisher files

[Louis Desjardins]

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
>
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> Owen
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