On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 13:40:45 +0000 Feargal Hogan <feargal.hogan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi > > I have downloaded and installed the latest > stable version and am reviewing it as an > alternative to ID. > > A few questions: > 1) Is it suitable for long document production? > 2) Is the SLA file format documented somewhere? > 3) Is it possible to import XML format text? I > note that html import is supported. Do i need > to convert my XML to XHTML rather than import > directly? 4) Is there any documentation on > supported HTML flavours? > > Any assistance greatly appreciated. > > Thanks > > Feargal > > > > > Feargal Hogan > m: +44 7745 817086 | e: > feargal.hogan at gmail.com > <mailto:feargal.hogan at gmail.com> > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20151217/4cd0c096/attachment.html> > ___ Scribus Mailing List: > scribus at lists.scribus.net Edit your options or > unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net > My impression is that the so-called development version 1.5.0 does much better with long documents than previous versions. So called because it is available for several platforms without recompiling. Reportedly It does have problems with footnotes and widow and orphan suppression. If I have those kind of requirements I use TeX instead. In any case I am using 1.5.0 or 1.5.1 (which is the real development version) for all my work. SLA (source) files are interchangeable with these two versions although some 1.5.1 features would be ignored in 1.5.0 of course. When I need to combine two or more pdf files to make one finished document I use Ghostscript scripts. For separate files named segment* to be combined into book.pdf I use this script: gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -sOutputFile=book.pdf -c .setpdfwrite -f segment*.pdf This is all one string of course. My mail client breaks long strings up. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Book layout, typesetting and Indexing Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html
