Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: > 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. To allow the import of openoffice.org files, it is best to use Styles in oowriter. As long as the fonts are available, Scribus does a pretty good job of making very similar styles.
Greg
