Bug 132130 - QuarkXPress samples that don't open in LibreOffice
Summary: QuarkXPress samples that don't open in LibreOffice
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Document Liberation Project
Classification: Unclassified
Component: libqxp (show other bugs)
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Reported: 2020-04-15 17:32 UTC by spzakulec
Modified: 2024-04-15 16:06 UTC (History)
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Samples from GamePro QuarkXpress layout files. (11.11 MB, application/zip)
2020-04-15 17:32 UTC, spzakulec 		Details
a conversion example (661.95 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.graphics)
2020-04-16 10:32 UTC, osnola 		Details
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Description spzakulec 2020-04-15 17:32:16 UTC 
Created attachment 159590 [details]
Samples from GamePro QuarkXpress layout files.

One of the people I follow on Twitter posted about his workflow trying to recover items from old magazine layouts, and mentioned they were QuarkXpress files.
He shared some samples here: https://twitter.com/frankcifaldi/status/1240757689249976320 (attached to this bug), with some extracted graphics.
I was not able to get LibreOffice Writer (6.3.5.2) to show anything useful from the files.
From the thread, they're apparently QuarkXpress 3.0 files from a Mac version.
I've also tried this with Scribus 1.5.5, and it won't load any of them.


The 3 files are:
Penn&Teller_SCD
Penn&Teller_SCD_cri
rev_Penn&Teller_SCD

in PAGE58/Desktop/Penn_GP58

Thanks!
Comment 1 osnola 2020-04-16 10:32:51 UTC 
Created attachment 159622 [details]
a conversion example

Hello,
yes, there look like v3 files but seem pretty complex files. 

Notes:
- I tried to improve a little the current sources of libqxp ; currently I obtain the following results for rev_Penn... : it is pretty bad, but if you remove the empty blue squares and a "background" picture, you can see the main text reappear and ...
- I stored temporarely my modifications in https://github.com/fosnola/libqxp
Comment 2 Xisco Faulí 2021-11-23 10:35:41 UTC 
Could you please try to reproduce it with the latest version of LibreOffice from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/ ?
I have set the bug's status to 'NEEDINFO'. Please change it back to 'UNCONFIRMED' if the bug is still present in the latest version.
Comment 3 spzakulec 2021-11-27 02:04:41 UTC 
I tried on two systems with LibreOffice Fresh (version 7.2.2 & 7.2.3)- I can't even get the three files to open.  When I try to open them, I always get "General Error. General Input/Output Error."

If these are supposed to work, or can be imported somehow, happy to try something out.
Thanks.
Comment 4 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2022-12-01 16:58:38 UTC 
Still can't import in:

Version: 7.5.0.0.alpha1+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 1a5d548b96d86ad7ca04c2b23dc18517a538a998
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

Are files imported with lbqxp supposed to open in Writer or in Draw?
Comment 5 Sarah 2024-04-15 16:06:42 UTC Comment hidden (spam)