Hello dear Scribus List, I have been spending two nice days at the RMLL libre software convention in Geneva, meeting up with Ale, C?dric, Dimitri, Pierrick and other awesome people (it's great to meet you guys face to face!), and of course we spent all the time talking and debating about Scribus.
This morning during a brainstorming session with Pierrick and C?dric, we tackled a few issues that have complicated all my Scribus workflows, and aren't still solved in the dev version as far as I know (at least they weren't covered in Ale's overview of upcoming 1.6 killer features). One of the biggest improvements to me would be : the availability of Character Styles in the Search/Replace window. Why is this important? This function would offer a great workaround against the loss of style information (italic, bold etc) that occurs whenever we import text from OpenOffice / ODT files. The current situation: 1. We import the ODT file, Scribus treats all bold/italic as local styles. 2. We apply some paragraph style to the text: all bold/italic gets overriden :-( 3. We have to slowly re-create all occurrences of bold/italic. A better workflow would be: 1. We import the ODT file. 2. We create character styles for italic, bold, or whatever we need. 3. We use Search/Replace to apply those character styles to every occurrence in one step :-) 4. Now we can apply the paragraph style, knowing that the character styles will be preserved. It has been requested some time ago: http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=4538 But there hasn't been much discussion around this, so I believe the usefulness of the feature needs to be pointed out. I am convinced that it would solve a real, recurring problem. That's it for tonight, looking forward to the Python scripting workshop tomorrow morning :) Manuel
