On Sunday 10 April 2005 06:27, Bart Alberti wrote: > WP and DTP programs e.g. Quark and Word Perfect have options 'use ''smart > quotes'' ' <toggle> Latex uses regular expressions of the <symbol>[A-Z] > <capitalization sentence start> sort, too. The absence of these is Scribus > is a limitation; it such be better and not worse than these programs > (except for Latex whose sophistication cannot be beat I think). Turning > these into text yield however (from Quark) in > less myfile.text > so-and-so \222 etc. > The long list of colors in the *sla file RGB CYMK BurntAlmond etc. takes up > huge space when no color or even text color is called for in use. IMHO a > modular text format where only the modules used is kept would seem much > more efficient and I gather that is what some of the replies to my postings > before seems to suggest will happen and if so I applaud. A file with > nothing but a space character in scribus prints out in TEN pages of raw > code. I see published books which have obviously been prepared in programs > and it is obvious they have dropped some element of fine printing or even > the usual standard of printing at some point and I can almost recognize > what program was used or font for that matter. >
So use the remove unsused colours feature. 10 pages? Since when do you need to read the file anyway? And you know theres a new format coming in 1.3 too... Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20050410/67c6aaa9/attachment.pgp
