Greg It would be great if Open Office could be imported into Scribus 1.4.1 but from my experience it dose not import the styles of any sort. I have also attempted to use Ctrl b. for bold but it works in open Office but dose not import.
I used to be able to do so. SO, WHAT VERSION OF OPEN OFFICE DO YOU USE???? Wena -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] To: scribus at lists.scribus.net Sent: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 13:00 Subject: scribus Digest, Vol 55, Issue 12 Send scribus mailing list submissions to scribus at lists.scribus.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to scribus-request at lists.scribus.net You can reach the person managing the list at scribus-owner at lists.scribus.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of scribus digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Creating multi- page magazine (wena-parry at talktalk.net) 2. Re: Creating multi- page magazine (Gregory Pittman) 3. Re: Creating multi- page magazine (Erich Dollansky) 4. Re: Creating multi- page magazine (ale rimoldi) 5. Re: Creating multi- page magazine (Jos? Young) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2012 14:48:20 -0400 From: [email protected] To: scribus at lists.scribus.net Subject: Re: [scribus] Creating multi- page magazine Message-ID: <8CF72D374313DBB-13DC-28FE1 at webmail-vfrr10.sis.aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Ciao It would be like haven to have the ability to import into Scribus text with such which retain its formatting, such things as Italics, Bold, Underlining and if possible Subscript and Superscript and Indenting. Preferably from OpenOffice. I have a big 200 + book coming from Canada with all this formats in it. I can foresee me making a some mistakes and having to send my work to the client in PDF and then editing in Scribus, able days to do so. The to be able to import to do final edit in OpenOffice. Wena ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2012 19:51:05 -0400 From: Gregory Pittman <[email protected]> To: Scribus User Mailing List <scribus at lists.scribus.net> Subject: Re: [scribus] Creating multi- page magazine Message-ID: <50721569.7000002 at iglou.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed On 10/07/2012 02:48 PM, wena-parry at talktalk.net wrote: > Ciao > It would be like haven to have the ability to import into Scribus text > with such which retain its formatting, such things as Italics, Bold, > Underlining and if possible Subscript and Superscript and Indenting. > Preferably from OpenOffice. > > I have a big 200 + book coming from Canada with all this formats in > it. I can foresee me making a some mistakes and having to send my work > to the client in PDF and then editing in Scribus, able days to do so. > > The to be able to import to do final edit in OpenOffice. > The way to do this is to refrain from doing any text editing in Scribus. Make your various styles, etc., in LibreOffice (or OpenOffice), and they should be successfully imported with the text. When you proofread and find errors, go back to the ODT file and edit in LO/OO, then import again. Of course with 200 pages, you will want to break this up anyway, but certainly re-importing a huge ODT file would be a task which might rightfully provoke anxiety for the layout. Having said this, you may still need to tweak styles. I don't think that LO/OO can match the precision of font size, for example (at least it won't show any value smaller than tenths of a point). For the layout of a book, there probably will be some places where a line or some words might need some very subtle adjustments to fit or for aesthetic reasons. Greg ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 08:56:46 +0700 From: Erich Dollansky <[email protected]> To: Scribus User Mailing List <scribus at lists.scribus.net> Subject: Re: [scribus] Creating multi- page magazine Message-ID: <20121008085646.61b7a3cb at X220.ovitrap.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Hi, On Sun, 07 Oct 2012 19:51:05 -0400 Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote: > On 10/07/2012 02:48 PM, wena-parry at talktalk.net wrote: > > Ciao > > It would be like haven to have the ability to import into Scribus > > text with such which retain its formatting, such things as Italics, > > Bold, Underlining and if possible Subscript and Superscript and > > Indenting. Preferably from OpenOffice. > > > > I have a big 200 + book coming from Canada with all this formats in > > it. I can foresee me making a some mistakes and having to send my > > work to the client in PDF and then editing in Scribus, able days to > > do so. > > > > The to be able to import to do final edit in OpenOffice. > > > The way to do this is to refrain from doing any text editing in > Scribus. Make your various styles, etc., in LibreOffice (or there are some problems - at least up to 1.4.1 - which stopped me doing this 100%. But I see the advantage of doing it. > OpenOffice), and they should be successfully imported with the text. > When you proofread and find errors, go back to the ODT file and edit > in LO/OO, then import again. Of course with 200 pages, you will want > to break this up anyway, but certainly re-importing a huge ODT file > would be a task which might rightfully provoke anxiety for the layout. > > Having said this, you may still need to tweak styles. I don't think > that LO/OO can match the precision of font size, for example (at > least it won't show any value smaller than tenths of a point). For > the layout of a book, there probably will be some places where a line > or some words might need some very subtle adjustments to fit or for > aesthetic reasons. > If an Text Processor could match scribus, nobody would use scribus. My problem with this approach is that if the text processor provided a file which is 'good enough' there would be no need to use scribus at all. I only can suggest the method I use. Get the text as good as possible done in some external tool, import it and then stick with scribus. This should be less effort and will deliver the result faster as the influence of a change is seen at the spot. We also have to consider that we are talking about things which are so hard to recognise by a beginner that the beginner does not even understand what we are talking about. Erich > Greg > > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net > ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 07:48:21 +0200 From: ale rimoldi <[email protected]> To: scribus at lists.scribus.net Subject: Re: [scribus] Creating multi- page magazine Message-ID: <20121008074821.75a285f5 at eiseiseis> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII hi erich you have several good points. > We also have to consider that we are talking about things which are so > hard to recognise by a beginner that the beginner does not even > understand what we are talking about. just one comment from my side: i fully agree that a beginner (or even somebody who is not an "expert", what that means...) won't understand what the issue is! but i can tell you, that many beginners notice that there is something wrong going on, something making things too complicated, frustrating. let's fix it! ciao a.l.e ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 07:53:12 -0300 From: Jos? Young <[email protected]> To: Scribus User Mailing List <scribus at lists.scribus.net> Subject: Re: [scribus] Creating multi- page magazine Message-ID: <CAB6dviyk3yRcj-CsK8ttHHgMcQfn6gugZMChUwt7Fa50ixg7mg at mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" A comment about "beginers". I have been watching the list for some time, and to be honest, it scares me. Most of you are talking way above my head. I have Scribus installed, have tried to play around with it, but even some of the more simple things are not obvious... despite the manual. I have been working with Coral Ventura for many years. It is a mainly a text oriented program. But.... it is getting old and since I work in Linus I would prefer not using a Windows program. So I guess I will just sit in for a few months (years?) and watch the list with the hope that I can begin to function with Scribus. Jos? On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 2:48 AM, ale rimoldi <ale.comp_06 at xox.ch> wrote: > hi erich > > you have several good points. > > > We also have to consider that we are talking about things which are so > > hard to recognise by a beginner that the beginner does not even > > understand what we are talking about. > > just one comment from my side: i fully agree that a beginner (or even > somebody who is not an "expert", what that means...) won't understand > what the issue is! > > but i can tell you, that many beginners notice that there is something > wrong going on, something making things too complicated, frustrating. > > > let's fix it! > > ciao > a.l.e > > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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