[scribus] ms publisher again

Gregory Pittman gregp_ky at yahoo.com
Tue Dec 29 15:14:58 CET 2009


On 12/29/2009 06:46 AM, Peter Nermander wrote:
>> Thanks everyone!? Printing it and redoing sounds like the best idea, it was where I was heading... really appreciate the feedback!
>>      
> If you still have Publisher you can at least copy the text over (but I
> would rather save the text to text files or maybe Open Office Writer
> files instead).
>
> One advantage from putting all content in external files is that if
> you mess upp your Scribus document and have to start over you still
> have "originals" to use (and won't have to try to "save" the contents
> from the messed up Scribus document).
>    
This illustrates a way of thinking about layout in Scribus that may 
differ from what you're used to. For example, if you create or modify 
your text in OpenOffice, you can apply text styles that will be imported 
into Scribus. In contrast, importing .DOC files will only import the text.

Greg




More information about the scribus mailing list