Hi We're using Scribus 1.3.3.13
A colleague who dislikes Scribus's table editing features, has put together all her layout of content in a OpenOffice .odt file. We have a Scribus file which has the nice colourful and positioned layout, that requires this .odt content importing into. For general text its easy to just import into a text frame, and copy and paste. But trying to copy text out of a Scribus Text frame and into a Scribus Table is not so easy, it doesn't even paste easily either. I know our workflow is not ideal, but has anyone any ideas to allow me to get the table info out of the odt file and into Scribus easily? And before you mention the wiki article about Complex Tables and Scribus, the problem with that approach is that importing the text via an OpenOffice Draw derived eps file leaves the text as an image, not as editable real text, so we wouldn't be able to ever edit our text in the Scribus file :-( Hope this makes sense. BTW, the new table editing/layout features have been on the roadmap since 2006, any idea when we might see them? Better table facilities are definitely needed as they are quite a basic feature of a DTP tool .... it really lets the side down from a quite wonderful application .. -- Kind regards Julian UK
