Am Mittwoch, 14. April 2010 20:07:46 schrieb Alison Saylor: > Hello All! Thank you very much for all the responses I got. > Unfortunately, I am still stuck. I am still trying, without success, > to open documents into text boxes in Scribus. the documents are > emailed to me in Word. I downloaded OpenOffice and converted the > document into a .odt file. when i try and open it in the text box the > initials 'PK' appeared and nothing else. cutting and pasting the text > eliminates the formatting. i'm perplexed because this is a process > i've done hundreds of times successfully when i was using Scribus for > Ubuntu on my last computer, but now that I am on a MAC no dice. > > I really, really appreciate the help I've gotten so far, so many of > you have been very generous. I think the help I need at this point is > very, very basic. the concepts underlying these issues are very much > beyond my knowledge base, so 99% of the comments and responses on the > listserv I cannot unfortunately put to use. what i need is advice > along the lines of 'click on this icon, then choose x from the drop > down menu'. here's what i am currently doing to try and get the files > into the DTP: clicking on the text box. clicking on the 'edit text' > icon. then clicking on the 'load from file' icon in the story box. > any ideas about what i might be doing wrong? thank you so much in > advance for any help!
You can only load plain text files into the Story Editor.ODT and SXW files are zipped XML files, so everything you see when you "load" such a file into the Story Editor is the beginning of the binary. To load an ODT/SXW file, right-click on the text frame and select "Get Text". HTH Christoph
