[scribus] Importing Microsoft Publisher (.PUB) files

[Craig Bradney]

> On 28 May 2015, at 17:11, Michael Hendry <hendry.michael at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 28 May 2015, at 16:01, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On 05/28/2015 10:08 AM, Michael Hendry wrote:
>>> My Rotary club produces a bulletin several times a year, using Microsoft Publisher.
>>> 
>>> The duty of producing this has shifted from a Windows user to a Mac user, and we would like to make the production of the bulletin platform-independent by using Scribus.
>>> 
>>> I have installed...
>>> 
>>> Scribus Version 1.5.0
>>> 19 May 2015 - SVN Revision: 20099
>>> Build ID: C-C-T-F-C1.14.2-Mac/-64bit
>>> Using Ghostscript version 9.05
>>> 
>>> …on my Mac, but I can’t find the PUB import feature, which is said to have been implemented some time ago in the online documentation.
>>> 
>>> Can someone tell me how to do this?
>>> 
>> 
>> AFAIK, what you will be doing is similar to PDFs, in other words,
>> File > Import > Get Vector File.
> 
> Unfortunately, when I go to get the “Vector File” PUB is not in the list of supported file types - and although I can see the file I want, it is greyed out.
> 
> I did read somewhere about a package dependency for the PUB import feature on the Mac, and suspect this may not have been compiled in to the DMG file I downloaded.
> 

Thats correct. I will see if I can build libmspub manually and then include it.

Craig

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