> For InDesign there are third party tools that can import a lot of file > formats, including QuarkXPress and Publisher. I note that the import > filters don't do a very good job, but see below.
But the companies selling those programs most likely have to pay license fees to Adobe for having access to the file format specifications if the ID file format. Who would pay such license fees for all Scribus users? The point is that nobody is saying "We don't want to make Scribus able to read the Indesign file format", it's more "We can not make Scribus able to read the Indesign file format because Adobe would not let us have the specification for the file format without charging a fee for each instance of Scribus installed." If you provide source code for reading Indesign files I don't think the developers would reject it as long as it is open source and not likely to cause lawsuits from Adobe. /Peter
