[libreoffice-users] 'exporting' Odt into Scribus

2014-12-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I do my company newsletter in Writer but want to do the finishing touches in Scribus. Has anyone else tried this? A few years ago someone from this mailing list offered to give me a hand but i had no time to even try it back then. It's suddenly become quite viable to put some time into

Re: [libreoffice-users] 'exporting' Odt into Scribus

2014-12-17 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Tom, Le 17.12.2014 15:11, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi :) I do my company newsletter in Writer but want to do the finishing touches in Scribus. Has anyone else tried this? A few years ago someone from this mailing list offered to give me a hand but i had no time to even try it back then.

Re: [libreoffice-users] 'exporting' Odt into Scribus

2014-12-17 Thread jorge
Hi Tom: I check the Scribus open file format and it accept .pdf, I made a probe with one document of mine, and Scribus open it. I suggest you to export your .odf file to .pdf and then open it with Scribus. I don't know how it will configure the pages opens but it would be well.

Re: [libreoffice-users] 'exporting' Odt into Scribus

2014-12-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Thanks! :) It didn't quite work for my newsletter but it may open things up a bit for other documents we have struggled with here. I'm beginning to see why Charles tried to find out about what sort of thing i'm aiming for. Scribus has a LOT of options and templates and stuff early on.

Re: [libreoffice-users] 'exporting' Odt into Scribus

2014-12-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Historical reasons really. The company tries to avoids using anything modern and generally prefers to do things the awkward way. The newsletter is a bit basic in it's layout. Generally we avoid using images or fancy layouts or anything that might make it attractive. Just a few tiny

Re: [libreoffice-users] 'exporting' Odt into Scribus

2014-12-17 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le 17.12.2014 17:35, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi :) Thanks! :) It didn't quite work for my newsletter but it may open things up a bit for other documents we have struggled with here. I'm beginning to see why Charles tried to find out about what sort of thing i'm aiming for. Scribus has a LOT

Re: [libreoffice-users] 'exporting' Odt into Scribus

2014-12-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Output format is Pdf. I've been having good fun figuring Scribus out. Already getting close to what i need! Writer has been doing a brilliant job as a DTP. When i first started i just used the old .Doc and even that made a huge improvement. Styles were the huge for time-saving and

Re: [libreoffice-users] 'exporting' Odt into Scribus

2014-12-17 Thread James Knott
On 12/17/2014 11:04 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Historical reasons really. The company tries to avoids using anything modern and generally prefers to do things the awkward way. Still using quills on parchment? ;-) -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

[Solved] Re: [libreoffice-users] 'exporting' Odt into Scribus

2014-12-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) This issue is solved for me now. Already! :)) Thanks for the links to their support! :) Charles' link was a huge help. The support links might help later on though. I had kinda figured that this work-flow would mean i'd be using even less of Writer's features for this than i do now and