[scribus] noob text format question

a.l.e ale.comp_06 at xox.ch
Mon Apr 12 23:29:23 CEST 2010


hi alison,

> hello!  my Linux computer has died and am now doing my newsletter in
> the MAC version of Scribus for the first time.  what format do i need
> to have the files in to save the formatting?  they won't open in Word
> and switching them to plain text files makes all the formatting
> disappear.  this will take me about 4x as long to do if i have to
> manually put all the paragraph spacing back in by hand and it's a
> looooooong document.  thank you!

openoffice is your friend. it can open .doc files and can save to .odt files which can be read (with formatting included) by scribus

ciao
a.l.e




More information about the scribus mailing list