<snip> Can anyone tell me what is the best way to work with tables in Scribus? We use Scribus to create our newspaper, media pack and rate cards. We are currently updating the ratecard and we want to put in a table to illustrate our advertising rates. </snip>
I gave up using tables in Scribus, it seems they are only aligned text boxes and difficult to work with. The facility could be removed. Instead I create complex Calendars of events and other tables in OpenOffice Spread sheet, export them as PDF then put the pdf as an image into the Scribus created newsletter, its a very easy process and makes updating easy because I can make changes in OO, save then update the image in Scribus, tooooo easy. Spreadsheet is good because it permits sorting on columns, etc so the presentation can be changed to suit requirements. It has made me wonder whether a facility could be included in Scribus, in which, when we want a table, it would open a text box which shows Oo spreadsheet, then when closed, displays only the fields needed for display or saving in the .sla. Roger
