<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:40 AM, John Culleton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john@wexfordpress.com">john@wexfordpress.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I have a customer's large (212) page doc file. I converted it to odt in<br>
Open Office Writer. Now I am trying to import it into Scribus 1.4.0 RC3. I<br>
set up the page to the same dimensions and the same margins and<br>
automatically linked text frames. Scribus seems to have stalled. Must I<br>
break up the input file into smaller segments?<br>
<br>
If I import the input file as txt instead of odt will things go better?<br>
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John Culleton<br>
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</blockquote><div><br>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. <br>
<br>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. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
-- <br></blockquote></div>John Ghormley KJ4UFG<br>Editor, SERA <i>Repeater Journal</i><br>Walkertown, NC USA<br><a href="mailto:editor@sera.org" target="_blank">editor@sera.org</a><br><br>