On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 18:11:56 +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > > [1 <text/plain; US-ASCII (7bit)>] > Yves Le Seigle wrote: > > > Scribus should import XML based OpenOffice format. > > Well, more generally speaking, it would be desirable to import > text without losing formatting (most important: bold/italic and > font size). > > I work with QuarkXPress and PageMaker on the Mac. PageMaker can > import rtf and WordPerfect files without losing formatting, and > QuarkXPress imports Word files, although it sometimes crashes > if those bells and whistles such as frames, "auto shapes", > "Wordart" etc. are not removed first. > > I guess it would be best to be able to import rtf, since any > text processor can save its files in rtf.
HTML is probably the most universally acceptable (with the exception of mailing lists ;-) file format.
