[Solved] Re: [libreoffice-users] 'exporting' Odt into Scribus

2014-12-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) This issue is solved for me now. Already! :)) Thanks for the links to their support! :) Charles' link was a huge help. The support links might help later on though. I had kinda figured that this work-flow would mean i'd be using even less of Writer's features for this than i do now and t

Re: [libreoffice-users] 'exporting' Odt into Scribus

2014-12-17 Thread James Knott
On 12/17/2014 11:04 AM, Tom Davies wrote: > Historical reasons really. The company tries to avoids using anything > modern and generally prefers to do things the awkward way. Still using quills on parchment? ;-) -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? htt

Re: [libreoffice-users] 'exporting' Odt into Scribus

2014-12-17 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 14:11:47 + Tom Davies dijo: >I do my company newsletter in Writer but want to do the finishing >touches in Scribus. The proper way to do this is to do your writing in Writer and then use the ODT import ability of Scribus. You can use styles in your ODT document and Scribu

Re: [libreoffice-users] 'exporting' Odt into Scribus

2014-12-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Output format is Pdf. I've been having good fun figuring Scribus out. Already getting close to what i need! Writer has been doing a brilliant job as a DTP. When i first started i just used the old .Doc and even that made a huge improvement. Styles were the huge for time-saving and increa

Re: [libreoffice-users] 'exporting' Odt into Scribus

2014-12-17 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le 17.12.2014 17:35, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi :) Thanks! :) It didn't quite work for my newsletter but it may open things up a bit for other documents we have struggled with here. I'm beginning to see why Charles tried to find out about what sort of thing i'm aiming for. Scribus has a LOT of

Re: [libreoffice-users] 'exporting' Odt into Scribus

2014-12-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Historical reasons really. The company tries to avoids using anything modern and generally prefers to do things the awkward way. The newsletter is a bit basic in it's layout. Generally we avoid using images or fancy layouts or anything that might make it attractive. Just a few tiny things

Re: [libreoffice-users] 'exporting' Odt into Scribus

2014-12-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Thanks! :) It didn't quite work for my newsletter but it may open things up a bit for other documents we have struggled with here. I'm beginning to see why Charles tried to find out about what sort of thing i'm aiming for. Scribus has a LOT of options and templates and stuff early on. For

Re: [libreoffice-users] 'exporting' Odt into Scribus

2014-12-17 Thread jorge
Hi Tom: I check the Scribus open file format and it accept .pdf, I made a probe with one document of mine, and Scribus open it. I suggest you to export your .odf file to .pdf and then open it with Scribus. I don't know how it will configure the pages opens but it would be well. R

Re: [libreoffice-users] 'exporting' Odt into Scribus

2014-12-17 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Tom, Le 17.12.2014 15:11, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi :) I do my company newsletter in Writer but want to do the finishing touches in Scribus. Has anyone else tried this? A few years ago someone from this mailing list offered to give me a hand but i had no time to even try it back then.

[libreoffice-users] 'exporting' Odt into Scribus

2014-12-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I do my company newsletter in Writer but want to do the finishing touches in Scribus. Has anyone else tried this? A few years ago someone from this mailing list offered to give me a hand but i had no time to even try it back then. It's suddenly become quite viable to put some time into thi