On Sunday 09 September 2007 10:34:18 Craig Ringer wrote: > David Bodwell wrote: > > I'm very much of a newbie at this DTP stuff, but I'm pretty darn computer > > literate. I have to admit that Scribus has absolutely stumped me. > > > > All the documentation says that you can import OpenOffice.org text > > documents (.odt) directly into Scribus. My problem is this: I open a > > new Scribus document, insert a text box, them import my text file?so far, > > it works?but then when I go to that text box I find that ALL the text > > file is in the first page text box, all 40 pages of it! No matter what I > > do, I can't seem to get this file onto multiple pages in Scribus, the way > > it is in the word processor. HELP! > > Scribus cannot import ODT documents as layouts. It can only import the > text from them. The documentation probably needs to be clearer about > this for new users. > > You need to create multiple pages, create text boxes on the pages, and > flow the text to them by linking the text boxes. It's a layout app; it's > presumed that you won't want to just dump the text anywhere on the page, > but will have a specific idea of how you wish to place it. > > Alternately, if you enable automatic text frames at document creation > time (it can not be done later) and import the text into the frame > that's created for you when the document is created, pages should be > created as required to contain the text. > > It'd be helpful if you could describe your goal as well as your > immediate issues, since then perhaps better informed and more useful > suggestions could be offered. > > > The second problem is that even if I COULD get it into multiple pages, > > Scribus strips ALL of the footnotes. This is one I must be able to > > overcome to be able to use Scribus, as the text file I'm working with has > > numerous footnotes. > > The missing footnotes are an issue with the Scribus importer. In many > ways Scribus really isn't ideal for long document work yet. I do not > know how to work around this if it can be practically worked around.
AFAIK, footnotes are now imported (at the end of the text) with 1.3.3.10svn and 1.3.5svn. In 1.3.4+, the Insert Frame dialog would allow multiple linked frame creation without using automatic text frames from the start. Craig
