Hi Christof, Thank you very much for taking the time to respond.
Christof hat geschrieben: > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 22:22:20 +0200 > From: Christoph Sch?fer <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de> > Subject: Re: [Scribus] Importing Tables > To: scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > Message-ID: <436136FC.3050206 at gmx.de> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed > > Hi Nik, > > >>Further tests confirmed that it is possible to import an OpenOffice >>table into OpenOffice Draw, export as EPS, and then import the >>PostScript into scribus. >> >>However, after importing the first 3 tables (of 38), scribus has ground >>to a halt processing, a file save takes in the order of minutes, and the >>resulting file is 33 Mbytes in size. This approach clearly isn't going >>to work for this project. > > > Just one question: Did you import the EPS files via "File - Import" or > into a picture frame? Well, yes and no, as it turns out... > You may want to try the latter since the first way > imports EPS as an editable vector object. This can eat much of your RAM. > I suggest importing as an image. > > Just my 2 cents ... And extremely valuable 2c they are too! I had imported the EPS into a Image frame, but I had done the following: 1. Select the image frame 2. Select File | Import EPS As you point out, this imported as vectors. However, given your email indicated there was a difference, I tried selecting the image frame, and then "Get Image". This imports much more quickly, and from the small test I have already tried, I expect it to work for all 38 tables in the one document. Thank you again for your reply. As an aside, since I have invested the time and effort, I still plan on adding code to import tables from documents at a later time (once I've completed this document, and the one that is to follow). I will post on this separately later. Cheers! Nik
