Am Mittwoch, 15. April 2009 00:34:49 schrieb John Jason Jordan: > On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:19:38 +0200 > > Christoph Sch?fer <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de> dijo: > > Am Dienstag, 14. April 2009 18:52:40 schrieb John Jason Jordan: > > > I do textbooks and workbooks, so tables are pretty important to me. I > > > am using 1.3.5svn and it still has only the grouped frame workaround. I > > > don't know how long it will be before Scribus has real tables, so I > > > kept working at alternatives, and I finally have a method that works. > > > > Copy your Writer table into Calc and use Calc for the final formatting. > > Then copy the columns and rows of your table to the clipboard. Open a new > > Draw document, use Ctrl+Shift+V and select "GDI Metafile" in the dialog. > > Then export the selection to EPS. Unless your gs is badly configured, the > > resulting EPS will be imported flawlessly into Scribus. > > I didn't try Calc at all because I'm pretty sure that in Calc you can't > use all the formatting options for tables that you can in Writer.
Perhaps that's your problem. Why don't you just _try_ Calc instead of "being "pretty sure" without any knowledge= > Tables in Writer were made to be design elements more than places for > sorting and calculating. If you can format to the extent you need to in > Calc, then Christoph's suggestion is another option. When was the last time you worked with a spreadsheet program? > > I should add another issue that may make Christoph's suggestion better > than my approach. After doing a few tables my way I discovered that > Inkscape was putting a bounding box around the image the size of the > page in which the original table had been created. > > Let me make that clearer. The original table had been created in a > Writer document with inside margins set to 93.6 points and outside > margins set to 57.6 points. The table extended horizontally from the > left margin to the right margin. On an 8.5 x 11 inch page that made the > table exactly 460.8 points wide. > > At first I just selected the table and exported to PDF (checking the > box for Selection), then opened the table in Inkscape. Unfortunately, > OOo's current PDF export function has a few issues. In this case it was > adding the page number to the top of the PDF, even though I had > selected only the table. > > To get around this I created a new blank, one-page blank Writer > document into which I pasted the table before exporting. This document > had equal margins of 75.6 points, leaving the same 460.8 points of > editable space. I used this blank document as a scratch document. > > When I exported from the scratch document to PDF and opened the PDF in > Inkscape it looked fine (no page number). Then I saved as SVG from > Inkscape and placed the SVG into Scribus. It looked fine in Scribus > until I moved it. The instant I moved it the graphic developed a > bounding box around it the size of the entire 8.5 x 11 inch page, with > (strangely) the margins of the original Writer document, not the > scratch document. Don't ask. I have no idea why. The computer gods work > in mysterious ways. > > Eventually I discovered how to stop the bounding box from appearing. > Once the PDF has been imported into Inkscape, go to Item > Ungroup. I > have to do this several times to get all the elements ungrouped. Then I > can save as SVG and place into Scribus without having the bounding box > appear. > Hmm, perhaps you know even more complicated ways to do this ;) Christoph
