Conal wrote: > Can anyone tell me what is the best way to work with tables in Scribus? We > use Scribus to create our newspaper, media pack and rate cards. We are > currently updating the ratecard and we want to put in a table to illustrate > our advertising rates. > Tables are a lingering sore spot in Scribus. This explains the straightforward way of using them in Scribus:
http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Building_Tables > If it is not possible, can anyone suggest a linux program for creating > tables that can export them as a PDF or something, that I can then import > into Scribus. So far I have been creating tables in Open Office Word > Processor, exporting them as pdf's then importing them into Scribus using > File->import->import EPS/PS... It doesn't work very well, and really slows > the program down. > Then there is this page: http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Complex_tables_in_Scribus_1.2x similar to what you're doing, but using openoffice to export to SVG, then importing to Inkscape and exporting to EPS. You might see if that works better. Greg
