
The importer for Writer (SXW) and ODT documents works per text frame and imports only the text contained in your document. The clear documentation and specs have helped the Scribus Team to create some useful import features, which will be enhanced in the future. OpenDocument has become an ISO standard in 2006 (ISO/IEC 26300:2006).

The standard has been developed by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), and it's called OpenDocument (ODT). Later, 's file formats provided the basis for a new international standard for office documents, such as text documents, spreadsheet or presentations. While 's predecessor StarOffice used a binary format to store its data, 's file format consisted of several XML files that were combined into a ZIP archive. When SUN Microsystems started the project, it also introduced a new type of file format. 1.7 Importing SXD and ODG graphics files.1.4 Let Scribus create text frames for you.

1.2 Importing Writer and OpenDocument files.
