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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0017760 | Scribus | Import / Export | public | 2026-02-21 16:53 | 2026-02-21 16:53 |
| Reporter | iantarrant | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | major | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | new | Resolution | open | ||
| Platform | PC | OS | Windows | OS Version | 10 |
| Product Version | 1.7.2 | ||||
| Summary | 0017760: MS Publisher import needs more development | ||||
| Description | Somebody has done much of the basic work to enable the import of MS Publisher files. However two key features seem to be missing. Linked text boxes are imported, but without links, so that the imported text begins afresh in each of the boxes. Graphics which have been resized in Publisher come into Scribus cropped instead. | ||||
| Steps To Reproduce | I am attaching a small test file in Publisher which demonstrates these problems. Also a pdf of what that file looked like in Publisher. | ||||
| Additional Information | MS Publisher will soon be unsupported, so many people are looking for an alternative which is able to import their stock of old .pub files. If these issues were fixed, Scribus would pick up a huge number of new users. | ||||
| Tags | import, import publisher, mspub | ||||
| Attached Files | |||||
| Patch | No | ||||
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-21 16:53 | iantarrant | New Issue | |
| 2026-02-21 16:53 | iantarrant | Tag Attached: import | |
| 2026-02-21 16:53 | iantarrant | Tag Attached: import publisher | |
| 2026-02-21 16:53 | iantarrant | Tag Attached: mspub | |
| 2026-02-21 16:53 | iantarrant | File Added: test1.pub | |
| 2026-02-21 16:53 | iantarrant | File Added: test1.pdf |