On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:43:52 +0100 Thorsten Rochelmeyer <thr-news at rochelmeyer.com> dijo:
>Am 15.02.2012 17:36, schrieb JLuc: >> As long as the new table manager is not finished in 1.5, >> you can export your table to PDF in your usual calc, >> and import them as PDF in Scribus, >> in the same way you edit images in gimp and import them in Scribus. >Thanks for your answer, JLuc. So if the table manager is not yet >implemented i might also stick with 1.4 until that happens. I suffer from the same problem. Most of the work I do (textbooks) requires frequent tables. I rarely use Calc, preferring instead to create the tables in Writer. They are, after all, just tabular data, not tables where I need to do fancy calculations. Tables in Writer offer things like merging or splitting cells, which makes them more useful. I can export from Writer to PDF the same as from Calc, but I usually print to a Postscript file and import that into Scribus. The advantage is that everything comes in as objects which are editable in Scribus. The disadvantage is that if you have a lot of these tables it can slow down screen redraw. I also learned to re-think my need for tables. I.e., if tables don't exist, how can I present the data so it still looks like a table? One workaround is to convert the table to text in Writer, make sure there is a tab between each "cell," and then copy and paste into Scribus. Once the text is in Scribus, define the tabulators for the paragraphs so the text lines up. This is not useful if I need borders around the cells, but usually I do not want borders, and I can always use underlining to create a "border," although it is sometimes difficult to get an underline precisely the way you want it to look. Another option is to create the tables with Latex in a Scribus render frame. Unfortunately, I find the whole TeX family incomprehensible. It would take me a very long time and a lot of frustration to learn how to do it. I'd rather just use my workarounds and pray for a quick implementation of the table manager.
