On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 06:35, Kevin Walzer wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Congratulations to the Scribus team on 1.2 coming out. I can't wait to > see instructions for building it on Fink/OS X. =) > > I'm also very excited about the styled text import. For me, that's the > major "killer app" feature that Scribus doesn't yet have. A lot of book > production houses do their editing/styling in a word processor, then > flow the styled text with style sheets into Quark or InDesign--it's much > more efficient than editing in the layout program. Even if the text > import is limited to OpenOffice.org format--which I imagine wouldn't be > as difficult as supporting MS Word or RTF--that would be more than > adequate, as OpenOffice Writer could function very nicely as a styled > text editor. I've used it in this fashion for actual typesetting of some > of the poetry books I publish--the text formatting is pretty lightweight. >
Well, 1.2 probably wont have oo.o import.. but what we have done is build the underlying interface so its pretty easy to import any text format. We have come across a Qt XML bug and will probably need to bring in the support of another XML library, possibly for 1.2.1. > (Side question: what impact will the new rich text capabilities of Qt 4 > have on Scribus? Has there been any discussion of this?) No idea really. We have looked at it, but as final Qt4 isnt due for possibly 6 months to a year???? we just havent really had the time or the need to go into it. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20040821/ac59103d/attachment.pgp
