Roger schrieb: > If I has a wish it would be that the scribus desktop have a semi > transparent > setting so I could place the original under the Scribus Desktop, partially > visible and trace the Scribus page layout over the top of the original, but > that's only a wishful convenience and of no practical value. > Roger >
Hmmm, in fact I think this wouldn't be of help to me, as I get a lot of texts in .doc format and convert them to .odt to be imported into Scribus, but their layout is always A4 like from a typewriter, and the layout of the papers I produce is with several columns (mostly). What I usually do is, I make a hardcopy of the original text and browse through the text in the Scribus editor, changing all hard formattings manually. Admittedly, this is somewhat roundabout. But e. g. my mostly used font is splitted into 4 files, so there wouldn't be a way of just saying "make it italics" to Scribus even if it was able to (why did Linotype deliver me such fonts back then - is this the usual way, or have I just made some mistake installing them? Strange enough, some programs show an additional font with all 4 styles in it, some - like Scribus - don't). Ok, so what would be necessary to achieve some ease of use is this: 1. Basic font familiy definition: Scribus should be able to accept some sort of font definition under one font (family) name like e. g. "this file for standard, this file for italics...". Then, when you choose one font FAMILY and say "italics", the right file is chosen automagically out of this definition. 2. Paragraph styles: Scribus then could be able to accept at least the basic font outlines hardly formatted in .odt files. This would help when importing them. In your paragraph style, you would only define the font family, not the specific font file, and maybe one of the styles available. 3. To make things finer, one might be able to define replacement formattings like "I don't want underline, but use bold-italics instead" to make sure imported texts from the people who use their text processors like a typewriter will still look acceptable in your layout under Scribus. Believe me, I'm getting a lot of texts with even words PARTLY formatted in, say, italics to make a special thing clear (for everyone here on the list not knowing German: In German combined words are written like one single - longer - word, so it's e. g. the second part of a word which is underlined, italics or whatever to stress something). Rolf
