Hi Alison, use OpenOfficeOrg (openoffice.org) - its free, ?... open the .doc documents then save it to .odt file format. Scribus import it very well.
--- On Mon, 4/12/10, Alison Saylor <alison.saylor at gmail.com> wrote: From: Alison Saylor <[email protected]> Subject: [scribus] noob text format question To: "Scribus User Mailing List" <scribus at lists.scribus.info> Date: Monday, April 12, 2010, 11:47 PM hello!? my Linux computer has died and am now doing my newsletter in the MAC version of Scribus for the first time.? what format do i need to have the files in to save the formatting?? they won't open in Word and switching them to plain text files makes all the formatting disappear.? this will take me about 4x as long to do if i have to manually put all the paragraph spacing back in by hand and it's a looooooong document.? thank you! _______________________________________________ scribus mailing list scribus at lists.scribus.info http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus -------------- partea urm?toare -------------- Un ata?ament HTML a fost eliminat URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20100412/d1ba078b/attachment.htm>
