[Scribus] Word file corrections

[Axel Bojer]

onsdag 06 desember 2006, 12:54, skrev Calum Polwart:
> On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 16:43 +1100, Roger wrote:
> > Consider getting your editor or submitter,  to save and send in small
> > plain text files, say a page or subject per page, what ever.
> > You also save and send the file changes in plain text,  then only you
> > have to do the Scribus thing and .doc or any other format problems reduce
> > considerably. ]
> > And best of all you only have to insert the altered text into an off page
> > text box, check it, move the original off page and move the new one on
> > page, then when satisfied delete all the off page text boxes.
>
> I'm not editing - he is! so he sends me a document in word format -
> which he has layed out on the same size page with the same size font to
> get a feel for what'll fit on the page.
>
> Then I import into scribus apply formatting etc.  Then I PDF and send
> proof.

If you could convince him that it would mean less work to you you could do the 
formatting in OpenOffice.org and ask him to use that. Most of the styling 
(though not necessarily everything) would be transfered and give you a bit 
shorter days :-)
I used this, and it surely helped me out of some of the redoings.

If the corrections are small it is faster to just do it in the story editor, 
especially if he has marked the changed texts parts properly :-)

Best regards
Axel Bojer