On Friday 29 December 2006 22:12, John R. Culleton wrote: > I tried doing a 5 page chapter from a book in 1.3.3.4. > Unfortunately whenever I imported a grahic it would carsh with no > message. So I downloaded, compiled and installed 1.3.3.6. Now the > crashing goes away. >
What platform are you using ? What distro if linux ? This is not a known issue. What created the graphics ? > I still have some questions, mostly centering around text. I have a > "story" that goes on for about 5 pages. > > 1. When I click on hyphenation all the text disappears! But after > several Ctl-Z's I got it back with a few hyphenations. I need a > step-by step on hyphenations. > > 2. TeX automatically squeezes out all extra spaces between words. > Can I get Scribus to do this? HOw? > This is something which can only be done manually. You can also use search and replace. 1.3.4 will have some improvements. > 3. The text came in with lots of " instead of left and right > quotes. Is there a quick way to get all these replaced? > Search and Replace with the text frame selected> > 4. Scribus seems to treat each carriage return as the start of a > new paragraph. How do I merge these lines together into a single > paragraph in story editor? > > 5. A new customer sends me files in a Mac-only format with the > suffix .cwk. Will my Linux Scribus import such files? What creates .cwk files. Doubtful if Scribus imports directly. > > 6. If I build up the book story by story in Scribus, what is the > best way to merge them together? I want each story to start on a > new page of course. Page > Import can merge them into a new document and add additional pages as needed. Peter -------------- 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/20061230/422042ad/attachment.pgp
