On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 06:30, Craig Ringer wrote: > On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 16:05, Jon Phillips wrote: > > > 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!!! > > This is something I, too, have been interested in. I haven't yet been > able to figure out how it could work when the "story" file includes a > headline, etc, though. Sure, the text could be updated ; but the DTP > user would still need to re-style everything, possibly add or remove > linked text boxes, etc. > > I suspect that to be most useful, such a feature would want an input > markup that permitted some content to be flagged so it would be ignored. > > > I think Quark and Indesign have > > this implemented in a similar manner. > > If Quark does it, I'd love to know how. Maybe it was added in Quark 5 or > 6 (but that'd mean getting something for your upgrade money, so I'm not > convinced), but all I have been able to find is the usual linked image > ability.
There is a static RTF importer under development. Perhaps once this is done, consideration can be put towards dynamic external file support. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20040524/6e44ec6d/attachment.pgp
