[Scribus] OO import (was: Right indent?)

Peter Nermander peter.nermander
Thu Jan 6 22:00:36 CET 2005


> Would it now be usefull to offer a choice whether to create new styles 
> depending on the attributes (as you described) or to use the paragraph-styles 
> OO uses. Its a pity if you carefully use paragraph-styles in OO and Scribus 
> mixes them up.

I would very much like the ability to import "marked up" files without importing their style.

That way I can let authors use any program (with a file format Scribus can import) to edit their documents, and use any formatting they want. And when I import into Scribus the text gets the formatting defined in Scribus.

I tried to use HTML for that purpose. First I imported a test file to se the names of the styles Scribus created. I then modified those styles to fit my design. But to my disappointment Scribus did not use them for the next import but created new ones:-(

Something like the following options for import:

1. Import text only (treats the imported document as more or less a text file)
2. Import text and styles (but NOT the formatting of the styles, instead map to Scribus styles)
3. Import text and formatting (if I have understodd right, this is the only option available right now?)

/Peter




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