2011/5/17 John Ghormley KJ4UFG <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kj4ufg@sera.org">kj4ufg@sera.org</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:40 AM, John Culleton <<a href="mailto:john@wexfordpress.com">john@wexfordpress.com</a>>wrote:<br>
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> 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>
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> If I import the input file as txt instead of odt will things go better?<br>
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> --<br>
> John Culleton<br>
> 2401 Haight Avenue<br>
> Eldersburg MD 21784<br>
> (410) 795-1159<br>
><br>
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</div>Frankly, I detest the .odt import process. It is great to get the text into<br>
a txt frame(s), but being a paragraph style oriented guy, I loathe the many<br>
styles created by the odt import. </blockquote><div><br>Agree. There is room for improvement here.<br><br>The styles from the imported document should not be imported into the already existing styles or the Scribus document just like that.<br>
<br>Instead they should be shown to the user in a window where would appear as the source styles from the ODT doc. The other half of that window would display the target styles from the Scribus doc.<br><br>The user should then be able to tell Scribus to map which source styles to which target styles. The user could even select more than one style from source to map it to one style in target.<br>
<br>It could be expected that that dialog remembers the choices made and if there are lots of the same kind of ODT files to be imported into the same Scribus document with the same style names they would be treated as the first imported text, if the user is happy with that.<br>
<br>Louis<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">But, then, I have constructed a few<br>
paragraph styles that format almost all my text and don't like that system<br>
complicated by a bunch of additional styles that are quite cryptic in their<br>
naming. And, since most of my articles are not nearly as long as your 212<br>
page doc, I'd rather import at a .txt file and then apply my own styles.<br>
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Of course, a one off project, such as a book, or the like, would present<br>
much different issues than my magazine does. So, I suppose I have written<br>
all this with not much of a point.<br>
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> --<br>
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John Ghormley KJ4UFG<br>
Editor, SERA *Repeater Journal*<br>
Walkertown, NC USA<br>
<a href="mailto:editor@sera.org">editor@sera.org</a><br>
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