On Tuesday 06 September 2005 18:54, James Gilmore wrote: > I've been putting together a booklet, but I've run into an irritation, and > I wanted to share it so possibly it could be addressed in the future. I've > been trying to import preformatted text for a dictionary/glossary where the > word is bold and the definition is not. Scribus only seems to support > importing text formatting on a line-by-line basis, which is not good for my > purposes. I've tried pasting the text, importing the text from OpenOffice, > and from HTML(with CSS tags, which was the original format), all with > limited or no success. In fact, Scribus crashes with a Signal 11 when > attempting to import text from OpenOffice 2.0. I've been using the CVS > snapshot on Ubuntu Breezy, as well as the stable build on a separate > machine running Ubuntu Hoary.
OO.org should import ok. I think there is a crash issue in the bug tracker now, once thats fixed, it should be ok. HTML+CSS is not currently supported, but older style HTML formatted text is. > I want to applaud the developers for a great program. It keeps getting > better all the time. I hate to complain about Scribus at all, because it is > (in my humble opinion) one of the best open source projects ever. But I > would like to see more options for importing text, particularly XML, HTML > with CSS, and of course, I'd like to be able to import OpenOffice 2.0 > files. That, or even the ablity to use regular expressions to format text > within Scribus would help immensely. You can use regexp with the text filter importer. 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/20050906/53a64182/attachment.pgp
