AbiWord Plugin Project

There is now a project in works to allow the use of the Abiword word processor as a GetText import filter in the 1.3.5 build. This includes formats such as Word, WordPerfect, RTF, HTML, and Docbook. The current matrix is available at the Abiword site.

Please note this is a work in progress and purely imports the text contents of the file at this time. Abiword is required.

A a side-effect of this project could be a Scribus exchange format for exchange of formatted text with other programs, like InDesign Snippets or Quark Xtags.

An alternate version of the plugin has be developed that uses ODT as the transition layer and the existing ODT plugin to import the results. As it is unlikely Scribus will abandon ODT or continued improvements on this plugin and Abiword as a similar attitude with its ODT export, this looks like a more practical solution than designing a new import format.