thank you for explaining that to me. i do need to change the formatting once it's in the text box to design the page it's on so a pdf version would do, but it's good to know what the other options are. and now i know what the 'OO' file extension is. it had popped up a couple times when i was first using Scribus and confused me, so nice to know. thanks for your help!
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 6:52 AM, John Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com> wrote: > On Tuesday 13 April 2010 19:01:24 Alison Saylor wrote: >> hmm, sounds like good information but i'm afraid i don't know what a >> pdflatex file is nor a .tex file. >> > > TeX (note spelling) is the oldest Desk Top Publishing program still in use. > It has several variations, all included in the TeX package. One popular one > today is pdflatex. If you have Open Office installed and TeX installed then > you can export a document from OO Writer in a format suitable for pdflatex. > The extension on the the file will be ".tex". > > The command to convert this file (for example foo.tex) to a pdf document > will be > pdflatex foo.tex. > > All the formatting will be preserved. ?I just created a "Hello ?World" 5.5 > x 8.5 in document in OO Writer, exported it as a LaTeX2e document > "testtest.tex" and then ran: > pdflatex testtest.tex > Then I inspected the document in Acrobat Reader. The entire process took > only a minute or two. ?That's the quickest way home if you are totally > satisfied with the structure of your original document. > > If you want to play with it however you can export it ?odt form, then > import the .odt file ?into Scribus. Scribus is easier to learn than the > LaTeX variety of TeX by a considerable amount. > > In summary > OO Writer > foo.tex > pdflatex foo.tex > foo.pdf > or > OO Writer > foo.odt > Scribus (import foo.odt) >foo.pdf > > Your choice. > -- > John Culleton > "Create Book Covers with Scribus" > Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95 > http://www.scribd.com/doc/24676863/ > http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus >
