Le Tigre wrote: > Hi, > > I want to import a text from OpenOffice in which the important thing is the > name > of the styles but not the style in itself. > Let me explain: I have many styles in Scribus, with specific names, and I want > to import texts from different versions of OpenOffice, from different > computers > (without the sames fonts, etc.). > What I would like, it's, in OO, to create the styles with the sames names than > my Scribus styles and after the importation that the text automatically become > Scribus-styles like. > When I import my text, I don't click any option (update, merge...): so the > text > is imported WITH the good names of the styles BUT the style is not efficient. > Example: in OO, the style texte_normal is defined by Arial 12 pt, and in > Scribus > the style texte_normal is Times 10 pt: afer the import, in Scribus the text > shows itself in style:texte_normal but it remains Arial 12 pt, and I have to > change manually from texte_normal to texte_normal for making it Times 10 pt > (and so the styles' import is unuseful). > Am I clear? > Have you any idea? > > Thanks > Raphael >
I also would like a feature as Raphael describes. What I found was that I was continually tweaking paragraph styles in Scribus itself and didn't want to have to keep updating them in two places (Scribus AND OpenOffice). I also wanted to keep the OO file as the master for text, but what I ended up doing was importing once and editing in place in Scribus. In one case, OO couldn't see one of the fonts that Scribus could so I couldn't set an OO style properly anyway. (Fonts is one of those murky areas I need to look into more.) I realize that in a "real" DTP workflow, I should have all the tweaking taken care of before working with content, but even so, once I get styles set up just so in Scribus, most of the time I don't need to set them up in as much detail in the OO import doc. Having an option in the import dialog to "Apply Scribus Style to identically-named OO styles" would be nice. Sort of the opposite of the existing "Update." While we're on this topic, is there a tutorial around that describes a good workflow using OO and Scribus? This was my first time using this feature (and what a feature!) but felt like there was so much more I could have done to make the integration easier but didn't know what that was. -- Carol Kankelborg
