Thanks as usual for the quick reply, Christoph Sch?fer wrote:
>>There would seem to be three options: >>Import into Scribus and apply all the formatting by hand in scribus - >>which is a complete nightmare as this will wrap over several pages... >>Import column by column - but if an address takes up two lines then >>everyhting goes out of kilter. >>Import into another package - apply formatting and then import to >>scribus. ooo-writer would be a good option (using mail-merge) - but >>then how can that be imported in and keep the formatting? >> >>Anyone got any good ideas? >> >> > >Why don't you copy'n paste the table into OOo Draw than export as SVG >... you know the drill. Another possibility might be to export as PDF >and then import into scribus. > These were options I considered as you are of course right - I know the drill! However, they are quite restriuctive - I expect this year's directory to be over 8 pages and they are talking about possibly16 pages - that means creating 16 tables - all of which need to be worked out what will fit on a page and so forth. >A third option I can think of is exporting >to HTML. I have never tried this before, but Scribus' HTML import works >quite well, so you can at least give it a try. > > This was something I only found last night myself - however - it works well for importing the 'core text' but not any formatting <b> </b> etc... also html doesn't have mark-up for <tab /> which would be needed to make all the 'columns' fall into alignment... Calum -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20051122/b86edcf6/attachment.html
