Last modified: 2013-09-17 09:35:16 UTC
Just sticking this in Bugzilla as a reminder for further possible discussion, since it's been brought up or requested a couple times. Scribus is an open-source, cross-platform desktop publishing package, which some folks like to use for things like brochures and other PR-type materials. It would be helpful to be able to share work in the original editable format. The .sla file format is XML based, and can optionally be gzip-compressed direct from the app (saved as .sla.gz). Problems: * Images can only be included by reference, not embedded. A complete document may require multiple downloads, or else manually zipping up the data set. * Scribus files are XML, but there's not a doctype or xmlns requirement on the current version, so they might be harder to verify. (Root element is <SCRIBUSUTF8>.) * Quick peek at format refs indicates there's some JavaScript embedding features. Any security issues? Sigh. :P :) http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&sm=scribusfileformat&page=scribusfileformat http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/File_Format_for_Scribus_1.3.x
Apparently people want to use wikimediafoundation.org to house these files for now, as no other wiki will allow them to be uploaded. :-)
