The libmspub library is likely to be continuously updated in the months to follow. You are likely to run into various buglets. Please keep in mind, though, that it is by no means a finished work.
No installers are available at this time. Currently the build with the PUB plug-in is disabled in Scribus by default, you have to uncomment the relevant line in /plugins/import/CMakeLists.txt to enable it. If you want to test the newly added support for Microsoft Publisher documents (and the Scribus team expressed their interest in reports from users), you will need libmspub from Git master, and Scribus from SVN trunk. Some of the patches have been merged, and some still need to undergo the review. Other than that, the native importing looks far saner than various workarounds that the Scribus team had to recommend to those who were unlucky enough to deal with Publisher.įranz Schmid, lead developer of Scribus, also started submitting patches to upstream libmspub. The team has already been notified about that. It looks like a minor glitch that should soon be fixed. However, as soon as you start tweaking linespacing (basically, scrolling the mousewheel in the spinbox up and down), all the missing text appears: All future development efforts will go into the upcoming new stable version 1.6.x.
As you can see, the layout looks a bit on the empty side. Scribus 1.4.7 is almost exclusively a bugfixing and update release and will be the last iteration of the Scribus 1.4.x line. Supported elements are: pages, text frames and text formatting, vector objects with various fills, bitmaps, clipping paths. Plugin load fails with undefined symbols (for. Thanks to the library Scribus is now capable of reading MS Publisher documents in 97-2010 file format versions, with bits of Publisher 2002+. Files posted in this section are pre-release builds of Scribus 1.5.8.svn and are consequently primarily for testing.
Most work on the original libmspub library was done during Google Summer of Code 2012 by Brennan Vincent and Fridrich Štrba, with reverse-engineering support by Valek Filippov (re-lab). For that it uses the code written by LibreOffice team. So, if you have changed the image externally (e.g., using GIMP) while Scribus is still running, clicking 'Update image' will, well, update the image and show the changes.
Unstable version of Scribus finally got an initial support for Microsoft Publisher documents. 'Update image' doesn't do anything if you haven't changed the image.