<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 12:56 PM, John Jason Jordan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnxj@comcast.net">johnxj@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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>i think it was just a commercial for the conversion service on his<br>
>site.<br>
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Markzware is in the business of providing conversion tools and plugins<br>
for QuarkXPress, Publisher and InDesign. I thought the post was to<br>
assess the possibilities of an import tool for Scribus. After all, they<br>
have import filters for the others, so they are already familiar with<br>
the file formats.<br>
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I suspect they will discover that Scribus users will not likely pay the<br>
price they are accustomed to getting for their other tools. Their<br>
conversion software comes as separate packages for just one program to<br>
another, e.g., Publisher to InDesign is one package, QuarkXPress to<br>
InDesign is another package, and so on. Most of their packages are at<br>
least $100, and some sell for several hundred dollars. If they made<br>
import tools so that Scribus could import InDesign, QuarkXPress and<br>
Publisher files it would be three packages and would probably cost<br>
around $300 for all three. I sure wouldn't pay that.<br>
<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>Had a conversion tool to convert from PageMaker to Scribus been available 3 months ago, $100, or even more, would have been a small price to pay to convert the library of files that I had to re-create from scratch with Scribus. This would have allowed me to import the PageMaker files and then edit them. But, now that I have re-created all these files with Scribus, I am not nearly as likely to need such a conversion tool. However, it would be nice to know there was one.<br>
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