[Scribus] Styles and Openoffice writer odt import

Christoph Schäfer christoph-schaefer
Thu Apr 6 21:31:04 CEST 2006


Am Donnerstag, 6. April 2006 21:23 schrieb Ian Malone:
> On 06/04/06, Christoph Sch?fer <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de> wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, 6. April 2006 13:03 schrieb Ian Malone:
> > > I'm using scribus to prepare a poster, with the seperate
> > > texts existing as seperate openoffice writer documents,
> > > each text has a heading and a body (or list).
> > >
> > > The font size in the poster is quite large compared to
> > > what I'm working with in writer (for convenience), so
> > > when I import the text I need to manually change its
> > > style to that in Scribus.  Is there any way to do that
> > > automatically?  Am I going about this the right way?
> >
> > You can import paragraph styles from writer into Scribus (at import).
> > Once imported, the paragraph style can be edited in "Edit > Paragraph
> > Styles".
>
> That's what I'd been doing, but there were several different
> documents to be imported (to go into different boxes), all
> using the same OpenOffice styles and all needing to use
> a corresponding (but different) Scribus style. What I did
> in the end was to import without style information, change
> the style for the text box to the main (paragraph) style
> and then manually change the style for any paragraphs
> that were different.

But why don't you use different paragraph styles in OO.o then?

>
> --
> imalone

Chrisoph



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