[Scribus] Styled text import & v. 1.2

[Craig Bradney]

On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 06:35, Kevin Walzer wrote:
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> Congratulations to the Scribus team on 1.2 coming out. I can't wait to
> see instructions for building it on Fink/OS X. =)
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> I'm also very excited about the styled text import. For me, that's the
> major "killer app" feature that Scribus doesn't yet have. A lot of book
> production houses do their editing/styling in a word processor, then
> flow the styled text with style sheets into Quark or InDesign--it's much
> more efficient than editing in the layout program. Even if the text
> import is limited to OpenOffice.org format--which I imagine wouldn't be
> as difficult as supporting MS Word or RTF--that would be more than
> adequate, as OpenOffice Writer could function very nicely as a styled
> text editor. I've used it in this fashion for actual typesetting of some
> of the poetry books I publish--the text formatting is pretty lightweight.
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Well, 1.2 probably wont have oo.o import.. but what we have done is
build the underlying interface so its pretty easy to import any text
format. We have come across a Qt XML bug and will probably need to bring
in the support of another XML library, possibly for 1.2.1.

> (Side question: what impact will the new rich text capabilities of Qt 4
> have on Scribus? Has there been any discussion of this?)

No idea really. We have looked at it, but as final Qt4 isnt due for
possibly 6 months to a year???? we just havent really had the time or
the need to go into it.

Craig
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