Pierre-Luc Auclair wrote: > My comment may pass as rude, but I have totally no idea since when apps like > Word and OpenOffice have been considered as layout applications.
Who claimed they were? > > They are just too weak to do anything more than setting text in bold and text > transport for people who don't have the knowledge to use real layouting apps. > This is why I was using scribus. > OTOH, I'm interested to know what you are working on with such a big sheet > size. > Conference paper. > On Friday 07 April 2006 16:29, Christoph Sch?fer wrote: >>> It was an A0 poster; the font size is sufficiently large that it's >>> a pain to work with it in Writer. I suppose I could have changed >>> the page size and zoomed out in Writer, but then you're >>> starting to do the layout in Writer rather than Scribus. >> Hi Ian, >> >> I wonder why you are working in such a complicated way, but then I don't >> know your project. >> Partially because I wanted to experiment with scribus. It also turns out to be useful to have the content split up into seperate text files so I can do things like give my supervisor parts to be incorporated in a presentation. >> If I were you, I wouldn't do any formatting in OO.o at all and create all >> the paragraph styles in Scribus instead, especially if I were "only" >> producing a poster. That way , I'd save myself a lot of trouble :) This is basically what I ended up doing in the end. It is annoying though when you make a change in a source file, re-import it and have to assign all the styles again. The 'markup' is already present, it would have been nice to be able to make use of it. -- imalone
