Thanks for the help. My project is that I am producing a newsletter that will be put online. Hence it would be VERY bad to make spelling mistakes!
Scribus, for all its limitations, is still the best layout software that I have come across so far. Andrew -----Original Message----- From: Christoph Sch?fer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, 26 December 2007 1:54 PM To: John Thornton Cc: scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de Subject: Re: [Scribus] spellcheck for Scribus Am Mittwoch, 26. Dezember 2007 03:34:42 schrieb John Thornton: > OK, as a slave to Mr Gates I usually work with his evil Microsoft junk. > > So what do I do? I gather that I cannot import from word into scribus. You can. You'll just lose your text formatting. > Is > there a workaround if I save word as html? If so how do I save in html and > import to scribus? Save as HTML from Word and import the file into a Scribus text frame. Scribus _does_ support HTML formatting. > > My other option would be to get openoffice and start using that? :) That'd be even better, since OO.o Writer files are better supported than *.doc. Paragraph styles and formatting of individual characters will survive the import. HTH Christoph No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.17.9/1197 - Release Date: 25/12/2007 8:04 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.17.9/1197 - Release Date: 25/12/2007 8:04 PM
