I am running the Debian unstable scribus-cvs package, and I am having all >manner of difficulty in persuading Scribus to accept text copied into the >clipboard from other packages. I have tried Kwrite and OpenOffice and >Scribus just keeps the menu items grey'ed out when in the story editor. >Is this a known problem? > >Regards > >David > > > Make a folder for your text files that you want to use for the project. Select the text you want to use click and paste it into Gedit or gvim. Make sure that your text file is always saved with a .txt extention for example filename.txt The file should be ready to use. If they don't have the .txt they don't seem to work.
Roger
