CPHennessy wrote:
> On Tue May 23 2006 02:52, NoOp wrote:

> 
>> And speaking of filters; are there any plans to eventually support MS
>> Publisher and/or Adobe PageMaker files? [Yes I know you can export those
>> to something else and import into Writer, but it would be a significant
>> boost to OOo if the program could do this directly]
> There is no plan to support these file formats as there is no documentation 
> on 
> the formats.
> 
> 

Thanks for the info.

Regarding PageMaker... looks like it's going the way of the dinosaur
anyway; Adobe has this to say about it:

<quote>
Adobe PageMaker has enjoyed a long and venerable product life. When it
was first released 20 years ago, in 1985, it transformed the way
designers work. Since then, it has introduced many innovative design and
layout features, and served millions of design customers worldwide.
However, it was first created when coding standards were quite different
and its role as a leading publishing tool has now passed to
Adobe InDesign CS2, which offers a more extensive design toolset and a
modern codebase that can adapt easily and swiftly to the needs of
today’s designers. That’s why Adobe no longer plans to develop and
release any feature-based versions of Adobe PageMaker, nor do we plan to
offer a version of PageMaker with native support for Mac OS X. While we
continue to sell PageMaker 7.0 and to offer technical support and
customer service for it, we encourage you to switch to Adobe InDesign CS2.
</quote>

That said, it would be nice to see OOo to eventually release a similar
DTP addition like an MS Publisher/Adobe PageMaker sometime down the
line. Are you aware of any such OOo projects?


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