On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 12:14 PM, a.l.e <ale.comp_06 at xox.ch> wrote:
> hi trevor, > > > > But you miss the point. I don't want to own a machine that runs > > Windows in order to compensate for the idiocy of those who do and use > > Publisher in the mis-gotten belief that it is a DTP application. > > do you want the scribus team to work on a filter for .pub files to > compensate for that idiocy? > Yes. i tried to keep your example and show you, where i feel that the problem is. > i may have missed the point. > > still, i don't understand what you want from the scribus community. > > can you tell me exactly what you expect from the people reading the mailing > list? > The most obvious thing is not to continue suggest keeping a Windows system and let it eat up disk space I could use for productive work. > what do you plan to do with it? > With the mailing list or the mythic filter? For the latter process the occasional PUB files people send me. > what would be your own contribution? > Well anything from software design, coding, Q&A, documentation. The one thing I can't (won't) do is reverse engineer the format; that would mandate I purchase a copies of Publisher (to cope with Microsoft's own inability to handle version changes) and a copy of Windows. Regards, Trevor. <>< Re: deemed! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20100809/18dbb454/attachment.htm>
