On Wednesday 05 April 2006 18:01, Peter Barnes wrote: > Hello everyone, > About a year ago I corresponded with the Scribus mailing list about several > topics. I was intending to switch to Linux and wanted software on which to > continue my newsletter DTP work. But then pressure of work prevented > further exploration. Also, I was impressed with Scribus but concerned about > a few features, essential to me, that seemed to be missing from it. > > Now I have switched all aspects of my computer work to Linux (Ubuntu 5.10) > except for DTP and have returned once again to explore Scribus (v.1..2.4.1 > on Ubuntu). I still have a number of conerns and problems so I guess these > would be best dealt with by sending them as individual messages to the > list. > > My first concern is that a year ago there seemed to be an assumption that > there would soon be a facility for importing text files saved as RTF. > However, after a year I cannot find this in the import dialog - is there an > intention to make it available or not? What I am looking for is the > opportunity to import text in RTF with character formatting intact (italic > etc) and using tags for paragraph formatting (as I have done in Pagemaker > for many years with RTF files edited in WordPerfect and with tags mapped to > single keystrokes). > > I know that Scribus can import fully formatted Open Office files with > paragraph and character formatting but I find word processor paragraph > styles terrible to work with when editing and moving text fast and > frequently. Tags are much safer and easier to work with. > > The above is not meant as a complaint about Scribus - I still think it is a > very good application but I need to sort out whether it is ever going to > replace Pagemaker for me. > > I would be grateful for any clarification on this topic (and on the others > which will undoudtedly follow!)
You can do style application on import via tags through the use of the TextFilter importer. I'm sure Riku will explain more.. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 191 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20060405/ac69c880/attachment.pgp
