Indesign to scribus
Here are several basic things I require from a page-layout application if it's going to be any kind of competitor to InDesign:ġ. However, Scribus comes nowhere close to InDesign. (It's one of the few CC apps for which I cannot buy a standalone/perpetual license.) Having said that, I'd love to find an alternative - InDesign has gotten bloated and awful over the years, not to mention the dreadful subscription policy. I've also used InDesign since 1.0, so I'm very familiar with what it does. The difficulty with presentation file formats is they often have embedded objects beyond the native graphics.I'm a typographer and sometime book designer (as well as a programmer).
#Indesign to scribus windows
Windows Bitmap (BMP, RLE) DONE (1.3.9+).Truevision Targa (TGA/VDA/ICB/VST) DONE (GSoC 2008, GraphicsMagick).Sun Rasterfile DONE (GSoC 2008, GraphicsMagick).Progressive Graphics File (PGF) (fschmid) DONE.
#Indesign to scribus pro
PaintShop Pro (GIMP has an import filter), See here, here and here.PaintBrush Image (PCX) DONE (GSoC 2008, GraphicsMagick).Krita (KRA): According to Boudewijn Rempt from Krita, "the pixel data is 64圆4 blocks of as many bytes as needed for a pixel, and the rest is xml and self-explanatory.".IMG/IMG GEM (legacy format used by Corel Ventura Publisher).GIMP (XCF) – The GIMP developers have specifically recommended against using XCF as an interchange or import as some of the format relies on GIMP internals.Corel Photopaint (CPT) – CPT files are based on TIFF, so that an import filter shouldn't be hard to write, according to Boudewijn Rempt.Note: 1.5.1 can import ODT files created by TextMaker without issues. Ask Softmaker for the necessary information (They will answer!). Basic information can be obtained here and here. StarOffice Writer 3x-5x (AbiWord has an import filter for sdw files).MS Write (AbiWord has an import filter for WRI files.) See also here.Microsoft Compiled HTML Help Files (CHM) via CHMLIB.Better MS Word import (formatting, styles) via wvWare.LaTeX (might be possible via plasTeX to DocBook).(AbiWord has an import filter for KWD files). KWord *KWord is now Calligra Words and uses Open Document as its default format, so *.kwd has become a legacy format.DocBook (AbiWord has an import filter for XML and DBK files).Applix Word (KWord and AbiWord have an import filter for AW files).AppleWorks ( libmwaw provides import filters for most or all pre-OS X word processor formats used on Apple's platform).AmiPro/WordPro ( KWord has an import filter for SAM files, OO.o can import LWP files).AbiWord (see libabw) Note: 1.5.1 can import ODT files created by AbiWord without issues.Xara Page & Layout Designer (XAR) (fschmid) DONE.Serif PagePlus PPP files (the XML-based version).QuarkXPress Book (QXB) – reverse-engineering in progress (external).QuarkXPress Project (QXP) – reverse-engineering in progress (external).QuarkXPress Template (QXT) – reverse-engineering in progress (external).QuarkXPress Document (QXD) – reverse-engineering in progress (external).A file format spec is available here IN PROGRESS (fschmid) PageMaker Template (PMT) – reverse-engineering in progress (external).PageMaker Document (PM*) – reverse-engineering in progress (external) Partially done.InDesign Book (INDB) – reverse-engineering in progress (external).InDesign Template (INDT) – reverse-engineering in progress (external).InDesign Document (INDD) – reverse-engineering in progress (external).InDesign Markup Language (IDML) (fschmid) DONE.InDesign Exchange files (INX) ABANDONED.
#Indesign to scribus code
Code to read files (Python), as well as a description of the binary format can be found here.