* Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> [2005-06-22 15:00:18 -0500]:
> > > Ah, yes. Exactly what I'm talking about. And, aside from Craig's > concerns, a goal to have the markup usable by external tools can only > help in the long run. For example, there is nothing to be gained by > making it virtually impossible for OpenOffice to import a Scribus file. > Maybe an alternative to making a presentation and exporting to PDF could > be to import into Impress? (I sure don't like using Impress to make > presentations, even though there are some (literal) bells and whistles > that are interesting.) > > Greg Greg, What would make writing this scribus-->OO import plugin "virtually impossible"? New scribus file format is made to be well-formed and valid xml. What could be easier to process? Now, OpenOffice Writer and Impress may not support complex layout arrangements that Scribus can produce, but that's not a valid concern on the Scribus side, is it? Alex
