[CREATE] libmspub (WAS: Sample files from older programs for those who would like to re-engineer)

[Alexandre Prokoudine]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:18 AM, ale rimoldi wrote:

> the publisher format is indeed far more interesting...
>
> depending on how well the publisher importer works, i could try to
> find somebody willing to implement the scribus part for it...
>
> still, i don't really see many chances that somebody from the team will
> do it before the 1.6 release. so, we will have to look for "new" (or
> returning) developers.
>
> but libmspub seems to still be at the 0.0.0 release...

No. It's 0.0.2+

> this does not really send out the signal that projects other than oo/lo
> should use it...

Maybe

> two final questions from my side:
>
> - how good do you think could be the quality of the import through
>   libmspub library in scribus? which elements will exactly match? which
>   will be just there? (text, images, word arts, ...)? which won't be
>   there?

http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/microsoft-publisher-converter-officially-released

>   what will the reaction of the user after having imported they're real
>   world files into scribus and wanting to continue their work in
>   scribus?

I don't understand this question. I suppose they would be pleased to
see that pretty much everything opens except embedded OLE-objects.

> do you have some test results with libre/open-office to
>   give an idea? (screenshot of the original,
>   screenshot of the imported file, imported file)

Same URL as above

> - how much work do you think it will take to integrate it? hours?
>   weeks? months? do you have an idea?

https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/lp1015572/+merge/114040/+preview-diff/+files/preview.diff

Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org