Hello Scribus folk, I'm trying to use Scribus to layout my graduate project and am having some difficulties and need some quidance and possibly might have some suggestions.
Is there a way to open RTF or DOC, but rather than just open the documents, link to it so that if changes are made, lets say by an editor, then when the master Scribus file is opened, you are alerted that the file has changed on disk and ask for an update. Also, it would be important to use the styles/fonts from an RTF, DOC, or OOFFICE SXW (really important!!!). The reason this is needed is so that a Scribus file is not a behemoth document that a single user uses only one at a time. Rather, Scribus should have pluggable chunks of text and even graphics that designers and editors can operate on independent of the master document, and when changes are made on disk to linked files, then the user is prompted if they want to update their linked files. Maybe this is already implemented, but I can't find in my dev. copy of 1.1.6. Anyway, if there is anyway at least to support dynamic updating of RTF's which contain style markup, or any plugins, this would be greatly beneficial! I really want to have like 10 text files that other individually maintain in CVS, and then one master Scribus document that I can just hit update and the texts are changed in the master. This would make design so much simpler!!! I think Quark and Indesign have this implemented in a similar manner. Keep up the great work! Jon PS: Please cc me on any replies. -- Jon Phillips Graduate Researcher Visual Arts Department PO BOX 948667 LA JOLLA, CA 92037 USA cell.858.361.2811 jon at rejon.org http://www.rejon.org
