On Thursday 08 December 2005 11:02, Fabien Z wrote: > Hello, and thanks to the Scribus team for the great job they are doing! > > I discovered Scribus (1.2.1) a few month ago and made a book with it > (the diary of a trip in Iceland, including photos and text in > french...). I was discovering the world of DTP and Scribus proved to be > easy to use and very powerfull for my needs. > > The next step is automation with OpenOffice.org, Scribus 1.3.x and > python scripting: I intend to be more efficient for my second book. > > As my books are organized in chapters, I had this problem : for my first > book, I had to split my text in different files (one for each chapter) > so I could import them in Scribus. But this made text revision process > (some late word spell or punctuation checking) long and inneficient as I > had to repeat operation for each file. For the next work, I would like > to have just one OpenOffice file, in which chapters are separated with > page break (for example). > > So my question is : is there a way to tell Scribus that a page break in > OO should be interpreted as a jump in the next linked text frame? I ran > some tests and it appears that scribus does not interprete page break in > OpenOffice documents.
Scribus simply gets your text into the current frame right now. What you are looking for is something that will be developed, ie, where you can just "File->Open" an ODT file and it will create the frames etc for you. This is however awhile away. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20051208/f64e80f0/attachment.pgp
