[scribus] Creating multi- page magazine

Wed Oct 10 19:03:44 UTC 2012

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Peter the answer to your question “right-click the text frame and 
select Get text?” is yes, I do.

I use the most well known font “New Time Roman”, because of the good 
italics in that font..

I can import text from MS word, no problem but it still dose not import 
Styles at all.

I have also attempted import from Open  Office on another computer with 
the same problem.

The thing is that I used to be able to import from Open Office some 2 
years ago.

Could some one who is able to import from Open Office send me a small 
file to see if I can import that?

Wena

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Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 13:02:04 +0200
From: Peter Nermander <peter at nermander.se>
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> I can see ODT, text file, but it wont import into Scribes, the text 
box
> which is highlighted too. As I said I can copy and past the text into
> Scribus but not the underline, bold, or italics.

Did you try to right-click the text frame and select Get text? It
seems to me you are doing something else...

http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Working_with_text_frames#Loading_Text_from_a_File

You should be getting this dialog:
http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/File:03file_dialog.png

/Peter

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Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 11:12:03 +0000
From: Sveinn ? Felli <sveinki at nett.is>
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Subject: Re: [scribus] Creating multi- page magazine
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Hi,

?ann ?ri  9.okt 2012 18:54, skrifa?i Joe Zeff:
> On 10/09/2012 11:28 AM, wena-parry at talktalk.net wrote:
>> Greg,
>>
>> I have tested a peace of text in  Open Office and saved a
>> file in ODT,
>> but that wont even import into Scribus 1.4.1. I can past
>> the text but no
>> stile at all.
>>
>> My OS Windows XP Pro What is LO/OO there is a few
>> reference to this in
>> the mail?
>>
>
> How strange.  For the last several years I've been creating
> my weekly contributions to an APA (Think of it as a two-page
> newsletter.) in Open Office until Fedora migrated to Libre
> Office and importing it into Scribus for formatting with no
> problems.  In my case, however, all of the styles are
> imposed in Scribus.
>

Strange indeed.

Paragraph styles in an .odt from several versions of
LibreOffice import quite well (latest LO is version 3.6.2,
Icelandic on  LinuxMint 13, 64bit). Scribus Version 1.4.1.

The only issue I've experienced so far is when a font does
not exist in real bold/italic versions, character styles may
get a bit strange if the font substitution is not adequate.

So I'd recommend carefully choosing fonts and styles in
LibreOffice/OpenOffice before importing to Scribus.

Example from a .sla file:

In this case the bold/italic attributes are messed up into
the same plain character style, forcing a manual
intervention to recover their differences.
The font for the test_Preformatted_20_Text style was Droid
Sans Mono which does not have bold/italic versions on my
system. Simple font substitution; Liberation Serif for Droid
Sans Mono, during import does not carry over these
attributes - Scribus can't guess that if I want to
substitute all missing fonts with Liberation Serif, then it
should use Liberation Serif Italic for the italics etc.
Fortunately Scribus is too precise for that.

However, by using DejaVu Sans (Book) as a font for the
style in the .odt, the result is quite different:

In this case Scribus finds easily the bold/italic
counterparts of the same font. Which is understandable
because the Droid font is designed for screen viewing, not
printing.

This is just saying that character styles coming from
OOo/LibO are sort of hardcoded, while paragraph styles are
more flexible.

And saying that at least on Linux, Scribus does a good job
of importing .odt styles.
Maybe the font substitution is somewhat problematic on Windows ?

Just thoughts,

Sveinn ? Felli

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