Am Mittwoch, 15. April 2009 01:49:33 schrieb John Jason Jordan: > On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:20:45 +0200 > > Christoph Sch?fer <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de> dijo: > > Am Mittwoch, 15. April 2009 00:34:49 schrieb John Jason Jordan: > > > On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:19:38 +0200 > > > > > > > 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= > > OK, since you want me to, I did so. > > The first thing I discovered is that the table had to be completely > reformatted. Pasting into Calc lost all the formatting that I had > created in the Writer document. So copying and pasting from Writer is a > bad idea.
Wrong. You lose some formatting, but not all. Most of it is preserved! > > Next I decided to go ahead and reformat the table in Calc to see if I > could produce the same effects in Calc. That worked acceptably. So far > it appears that if one creates the table originally in Calc you can > achieve the same table quality as if you create it in Writer. Mind you, > this was just one relatively simple table. > > Then I copied and pasted as you suggested into Draw. Sadly, the > formatting of text in Calc came out messed up. The messed up part was > text that was rotated 270 degrees in the header row. I'm guessing this > is an OOo bug. It wasn't badly messed up, but badly enough that it > wasn't acceptable. Works without issues here. What version of OO.o do you use? > > > > 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? > > Winter term at the university. But I didn't have to print the results. > Otherwise, maybe a few times a year. I do writing and layout. Why would > it occur to me to use Calc? To have more options for the design of tables? ;) Christoph
