Reading Microsoft Publisher documents with LibreOffice Draw has just become available thanks to Google Summer of Code program. Fridrich Strba officially announced public availability of libmspub, a free library for reading and converting MS Publisher documents. The code will be first used in LibreOffice 3.7. So far the library is capable of reading v2003+ files with bitmaps, basic text formatting features (typeface, font size and color), shapes with fills. Here is an example from stocklayouts.com opened with LibreOffice Draw: There will be certain issues with the built-in SVG converter that are easy to predict. First of all, SVG doesn't yet have pagination, and according to Tavmjong Bah, an Inkscape's representative in the W3C SVG working group, it's a low priority feature at this point. SVG also doesn't have a notion of linked text frames, albeit this could be solved thanks to recent Adobe's work on CSS. And then there is the whole sad story of flowed ...