[scribus] Importing large ODT file.

[John Ghormley KJ4UFG]

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:40 AM, John Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com>wrote:

> I have a customer's large (212) page doc file. I converted it to odt in
> Open Office Writer. Now I am trying to import it into Scribus 1.4.0 RC3. I
> set up the page to the same dimensions and the same margins and
> automatically linked text frames. Scribus seems to have stalled. Must I
> break up the input file into smaller segments?
>
> If I import the input file as txt instead of odt will things go better?
>
> --
> John Culleton
> 2401 Haight Avenue
> Eldersburg MD 21784
> (410) 795-1159
>

Frankly, I detest the .odt import process.  It is great to get the text into
a txt frame(s), but being a paragraph style oriented guy, I loathe the many
styles created by the odt import.  But, then, I have constructed a few
paragraph styles that format almost all my text and don't like that system
complicated by a bunch of additional styles that are quite cryptic in their
naming.  And, since most of my  articles are not nearly as long as your 212
page doc, I'd rather import at a .txt file and then apply my own styles.

Of course, a one off project, such as a book, or the like, would present
much different issues than my magazine does.  So, I suppose I have written
all this with not much of a point.

> --
>
John Ghormley  KJ4UFG
Editor, SERA *Repeater Journal*
Walkertown, NC  USA
editor at sera.org
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