great, thank you. and since i have a mac and there's no right clicking on anything......what do i do instead? thanks!
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Christoph Sch?fer <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 14. April 2010 20:07:46 schrieb Alison Saylor: >> Hello All! ?Thank you very much for all the responses I got. >> Unfortunately, I am still stuck. ?I am still trying, without success, >> to open documents into text boxes in Scribus. ?the documents are >> emailed to me in Word. ?I downloaded OpenOffice and converted the >> document into a .odt file. ?when i try and open it in the text box the >> initials 'PK' appeared and nothing else. ?cutting and pasting the text >> eliminates the formatting. ?i'm perplexed because this is a process >> i've done hundreds of times successfully when i was using Scribus for >> Ubuntu on my last computer, but now that I am on a MAC no dice. >> >> I really, really appreciate the help I've gotten so far, so many of >> you have been very generous. ?I think the help I need at this point is >> very, very basic. ?the concepts underlying these issues are very much >> beyond my knowledge base, so 99% of the comments and responses on the >> listserv I cannot unfortunately put to use. ?what i need is advice >> along the lines of 'click on this icon, then choose x from the drop >> down menu'. ?here's what i am currently doing to try and get the files >> into the DTP: ?clicking on the text box. ?clicking on the 'edit text' >> icon. then clicking on the 'load from file' icon in the story box. >> any ideas about what i might be doing wrong? ?thank you so much in >> advance for any help! > > You can only load plain text files into the Story Editor.ODT and SXW files are > zipped XML files, so everything you see when you "load" such a file into the > Story Editor is the beginning of the binary. > > To load an ODT/SXW file, right-click on the text frame and select "Get Text". > > HTH > > Christoph > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus >
