[scribus] OpenOffice into Scribus

[William F. Maddock]

-----Original Message-----
>From: Fritz Eichelhardt <f.eichelhardt at web.de>
>Sent: Aug 22, 2008 12:47 PM
>To: scribus at lists.scribus.net
>Subject: Re: [scribus] OpenOffice into Scribus
>
>hi all,
>
>> From: Frank Swygert <farna at att.net>
>> Subject: Re: [scribus] OpenOffice into Scribus
>
>> I always save text from an outside WP program as Rich Text or Plain Text.
>> OpenOffice supports RTF exports.
>ok, but why do you?
>save as odt, and everything's fine.
>
>> RTF is enough of a standard (and plain text or ASCII files, for 
>> that matter) that it NEEDS to be supported
>no, it does not NEED to
>scribus is FREE and open-source.
>oo is FREE and open-source.
>scribus supports oo-format.
>oo is able to read word-format
>so, where is the problem?

Certainly you are aware of the multitudinous word processors that scribus does NOT support, but all of which support saving in RTF format. scribus is free; nearly all of those word processors cost someone money to obtain. How hard would it really be to implement support for RTF when you consider the number of word processors that would come along for the ride?