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0017765ScribusImport / Exportpublic2026-02-22 21:29
Reportercbradney Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeveritymajorReproducibilityalways
Status newResolutionopen 
PlatformPCOSWindowsOS Version10
Product Version1.7.2 
Summary0017765: MS Publisher import needs more development: Linked text boxes are imported, but without links, so that the imported text begins
DescriptionJust one part of 0017760

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 ReproduceI am attaching a small test file in Publisher which demonstrates these problems.
Also a pdf of what that file looked like in Publisher.
Additional InformationMS 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.
Tagsimport, import publisher, mspub
PatchNo

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related to 0017760 resolvedcbradney MS Publisher import needs more development: Image scaling 

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Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2026-02-22 21:28 cbradney New Issue
2026-02-22 21:28 cbradney Tag Attached: import
2026-02-22 21:28 cbradney Tag Attached: import publisher
2026-02-22 21:28 cbradney Tag Attached: mspub
2026-02-22 21:28 cbradney Issue generated from: 0017760
2026-02-22 21:29 cbradney Relationship added related to 0017760