Without asking the scribus devs, might be no way of knowing. I was able to open another file created in the past couple years which had many pages. Layers and layer settings were supported, group was supported. And I think even it was remembering the undo steps of the file. That's crazy. Scribus is free to download and test and I think that's the best way to go about, try some files rather than speculating on support level.

Xara can do a lot of things, so how would advanced path effects work, how would 3D work, how would shadows, bevel, text on path etch work. Who knows, Maybe it would break, maybe there's fall-back positioning. Definitely worth testing. Thankfully all the files I care about archiving rarely rely on effects unique to xara.




Quote Originally Posted by handrawn View Post
a thought occurs - is the opening based on the old public domain xara LX code [that could be written as well afaik] - if so it may struggle with some recent files