John Culleton wrote: > On Thursday 18 September 2008 04:36:16 pm Ian Seeks wrote: > >> Hi >> >> This is the first time i've used scribus and don't have any other >> DTP experience. I've followed a couple of tutorials on showmedo.com >> to get em started. >> The task is to convert a 8 page winelist and create a single "A0" >> page with it all on so it can be printed. >> The first thing i did was convert the the winelist that was in a >> ODT document. It was formatted in tables of about 5 columns so i >> created another copy by converting all the tables to text (with tab >> separators) and lined it all up nicely. >> I then created a scribus document and imported this newly formatted >> ODT. I then used the Storyeditor to make sure it was lined up >> nicely. I saved it back and the formatting was lost and it looked >> as if tabs had been inserted in some rows and some removed in >> others. >> Can anyone point me in the right direction has to how i would >> create a style or something where i can line these columns up and >> keep them fixed? >> >> Thanks to the team that created and maintains scribus. >> >> regards >> >> Ian >> >> _______________________________________________ >> scribus mailing list >> scribus at lists.scribus.info >> http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus >> > > There are detailed instructions in the help system. Basically you > create the odt table using calc and then bring it in using draw. > > And I never use tabs, too variable from app to app. > > Within the story editor you can click on the left column and get to > the style editor. Then you can create styles. > To add just a couple things: You must use Styles in oowriter to get the best results, in other words, not just enter tabs and change the character features in oowriter. And if you have a mixture of Styles and other changes, results can be unpredictable, yet you should be able to modify any auto-created Style in Scribus.
Greg
