On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 12:56 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>wrote:
> > >i think it was just a commercial for the conversion service on his > >site. > > Markzware is in the business of providing conversion tools and plugins > for QuarkXPress, Publisher and InDesign. I thought the post was to > assess the possibilities of an import tool for Scribus. After all, they > have import filters for the others, so they are already familiar with > the file formats. > > I suspect they will discover that Scribus users will not likely pay the > price they are accustomed to getting for their other tools. Their > conversion software comes as separate packages for just one program to > another, e.g., Publisher to InDesign is one package, QuarkXPress to > InDesign is another package, and so on. Most of their packages are at > least $100, and some sell for several hundred dollars. If they made > import tools so that Scribus could import InDesign, QuarkXPress and > Publisher files it would be three packages and would probably cost > around $300 for all three. I sure wouldn't pay that. > > Had a conversion tool to convert from PageMaker to Scribus been available 3 months ago, $100, or even more, would have been a small price to pay to convert the library of files that I had to re-create from scratch with Scribus. This would have allowed me to import the PageMaker files and then edit them. But, now that I have re-created all these files with Scribus, I am not nearly as likely to need such a conversion tool. However, it would be nice to know there was one. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20101209/1d04cd02/attachment.htm>
