I am using 3.2.1 (downloaded from OOo) on Fedora 13 x86_64. I also use Scribus for laying out books. However, Scribus does not (yet) have an indexing feature.
I have discovered that using Adobe Reader one can open a PDF (as exported from Scribus), then save from Reader as a text file. The text file will have page breaks at the end of each page of the PDF. The text file can then be opened in Writer, where Writer's indexing feature can create the index. Once the index is created it can be saved as a separate document and then imported into Scribus at the end of the document. The problem is the pagination. The text file does have a page break at the point where each page of the PDF ended, but sometimes the amount of text on a page in the PDF takes more than one page in Writer. Writer then flows the text onto an extra page. For example, as an experiment I opened an 11 page PDF in Reader, saved as text, and opened the text file in Writer. In Writer it was 14 pages. The first page of the PDF took about a page and a quarter, then Writer started a new page because of the page break. The second page of the PDF all fit on one page in Writer, but the third page took almost a page and a half so, again, Writer added a page. I'm trying to figure out some way to make Writer paginate only on the page breaks and not create extra pages. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
