Am Dienstag, 10. Oktober 2006 03:30 schrieb Gregory Pittman: > dwain.alford at gmail.com wrote: > > Gregory Pittman wrote: > >> dwain.alford at gmail.com wrote: > >>> back to the article, did i understand correctly that scribus can > >>> produce a presentation similar to ms powerpoint and open office > >>> impress? > >> > >> In essence, what you can do is to use a PDF for your presentation. Thus, > >> Scribus gives you all its layout capabilities for creating your > >> presentation. > > > > thanks, greg. as i read the getting started with scribus wiki, i am > > picking up some things. > > > > i asked this question in my first post, let me pose it again a bit > > differently: > > > > in pagemaker 6.52, you can "turn off and on" each side of a cell. in > > scribus you can only turn printing on or off for the entire table or > > cell. is there plans in a future release to add this feature, or is it > > felt that a feature such as this is not needed, because it can be done > > in open office and imported into scribus? > > When you first create a table, you might think of it just as the > "framework" of a table, a series of text frames arranged like a table. > The borders of each text frame or cell as a default have no color, so > therefore they don't show. The Properties tool is something which is > essential feature for manipulating frames. > In Properties, there is a tab named "Line" in which you can select which > of the sides of a cell to show and alter, then in the "Color" tab you > indicate what color you want the sides to be. Each cell can have a > different color, style, and thickness to its sides (borders), but all of > the sides that show will have the same color, style, and thickness. > > Right now no one is satisfied with the current implementation of tables, > so they will be improved in the future. For a complex table, the > recommendation currently is to make it somewhere else and import as an EPS. > > > i am looking forward to learning more about scribus and using it as a > > platform for printing art work that i create in inkscape. and speaking > > of inkscape, i had placed an inkscape svg in scribus and received a > > message that some of the properties were not supported by scribus. i > > assume tighter integration is still under way? didn't i read something > > about this recently on the list? i'm using 1.3.3.4 on a windows 2000 > > platform. > > You're as up-to-date as you can be with importing Inkscape SVGs. I > haven't tried it yet but gradients are supposed to be improved in > 1.3.3.4 -- this has been the main problem I have noticed in the past, > most other SVG elements come in pretty well. There is always the option > to export from Inkscape to a bitmap for something difficult, just make > it big enough to get the resolution you need. > > Greg
Please have a look here as well: http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Complex_tables_in_Scribus_1.2x Since the tables features hasn't changed in 1.3.x, it's still correct. Christoph
