That XSLT stylesheet came to mind (just like the ODF-OOXML translator), when I first thought about this. However, as I'm not a skilled programmer, I can't start a sister project myself. That's why I posted this. ^_^b
On Feb 2, 2008 11:01 PM, Maciej Hanski <ma_han2000 at yahoo.de> wrote: > Icy EyeG wrote: > > Hi! > > I'm new to Scribus, so I don't know if anyone has talked about this or > not. > > I love the program, but one thing I'd like to have would be an easy > > convertion of Publisher (2003/2007) files. I already saw that you don't > > intend to port proprietary formats (and I do understand the reasons). > > However, I think that no one talks about the fact that Publisher also > saves > > files in MHT format. The 2003 and 2007 editions (at least) can edit > these > > MHT files, as if they were regular PUB files, because all the style > > information is saved in HTML tags and metadata (most of it localized > between > > the <head></head>). As a MHT file is easily edited in a text editor and > > Scribus uses a XML-like format (and, for what I understand HTML support > is > > on the roadmap), wouldn't it be easier to add a "Publisher MHT file > import" > > function, instead of a "Publisher PUB file import" function? > > The users would still have to convert their PUB files one by one to the > MHT > > format, but it would be a huge improvement to increase the popularity of > > Scribus. > > > > Please tell me what you think. > > What about writing a nice XSL stylesheet and transforming these files > (MHT, XHTML, INX, whatever) with a XSLT processor? I might be wrong, but > this job could be done outside of Scribus and without engaging the > sparse resources of the Scribus team. > > Maciej > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20080202/244b4d5c/attachment.htm
