On Tue, 03 Mar 2015 10:10:39 -0500 Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:
> On 03/03/2015 08:18 AM, John Culleton wrote: > > > > I tried importing a Libre office odt file but > > 1.5.0 said it was in the wrong format. I tried > > both opening the file in Scribus and > > importing it as text. > > > > Any suggestions? > > > save as text from LO. > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________________ > Unlimited Disk, Data Transfer, PHP/MySQL Domain > Hosting http://www.doteasy.com I've done that. but much of the layout gets lost. And things like table of contents gets distorted. If this were just a text file, but it isn't. So is the odt import feature not workable? If so please just say so. How about xml? docx? I am already pursuing the text route from text files extracted from a pdf file. But progress is very slow. Just FYI I broke the pdf file apart into one-page segments using pdftk and converted each of those to individual text files. Wrote a cobol program just to reduce the 200 plus pdf pages to text. Then I am importing these text pages into Scribus 1.5.0 and formatting those pages by hand. I tried pasting the individual pdf pages directly into Scribus 1.5.0 as graphics but the reproduction was lousy. This is not my first rodeo. But I am really stymied by this project. The document has lots of embedded and half-way embedded sidebars and a recurrent graphic file that neither I nor the author has a copy of. And I have to do a cover (no problem there) and an index. Thanks for your patience and help. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html Updated PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus 1.4.5" coming soon at http://www.booklocker.com/!
