On Saturday 08 September 2007 08:45:49 am Gregory Pittman wrote: > Bruce Smith wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm a noob to Scribus, but have been doing DTP since PageMaker > > belonged to Aldus. I'm wondering if anyone knows whether or not > > Scribus will be blessed with a table editor like the one in InDesign? > > On where you can dump in tab delimited text and give a text-to-table > > command. Going the OpenOffice/.eps route is currently what I'm doing > > to get tables, but sometimes it would be quicker to just fiddle with > > the table in Scribus. > > Here's at least an approximate answer: > > http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/1.3.x_Roadmap#1.3.8 > > so it's a bit away I'm afraid. What it requires is a complete rewrite of > the way tables are done. > > Greg > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Need personalized email and website? Look no further. It's easy > with Doteasy $0 Web Hosting! Learn more at www.doteasy.com
In the meantime one can create tables in e.g., Context's Natural Table progam and import the resulting file in some non-bitmapped fashion as a graphic. -- John Culleton http://wexfordpress.com http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf
