[scribus] Cut and Paste Oo formatting

[Gregory Pittman]

Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote:
> Roger schrieb:
>> If I has a wish it would be that the scribus desktop have a  semi 
>> transparent
>> setting so I could place the original under the Scribus Desktop, 
>> partially
>> visible and trace the Scribus page layout over the top of the 
>> original, but
>> that's only a wishful convenience and of no practical value.
>> Roger
>>
>
>
> Hmmm, in fact I think this wouldn't be of help to me, as I get a lot 
> of texts in .doc format and convert them to .odt to be imported into 
> Scribus, but their layout is always A4 like from a typewriter, and the 
> layout of the papers I produce is with several columns (mostly).
>
> What I usually do is, I make a hardcopy of the original text and 
> browse through the text in the Scribus editor, changing all hard 
> formattings manually. Admittedly, this is somewhat roundabout.
>
> But e. g. my mostly used font is splitted into 4 files, so there 
> wouldn't be a way of just saying "make it italics" to Scribus even if 
> it was able to (why did Linotype deliver me such fonts back then - is 
> this the usual way, or have I just made some mistake installing them? 
> Strange enough, some programs show an additional font with all 4 
> styles in it, some - like Scribus - don't).
>
> Ok, so what would be necessary to achieve some ease of use is this:
>
> 1. Basic font familiy definition: Scribus should be able to accept 
> some sort of font definition under one font (family) name like e. g. 
> "this file for standard, this file for italics...". Then, when you 
> choose one font FAMILY and say "italics", the right file is chosen 
> automagically out of this definition.
>
> 2. Paragraph styles: Scribus then could be able to accept at least the 
> basic font outlines hardly formatted in .odt files. This would help 
> when importing them. In your paragraph style, you would only define 
> the font family, not the specific font file, and maybe one of the 
> styles available.
>
> 3. To make things finer, one might be able to define replacement 
> formattings like "I don't want underline, but use bold-italics 
> instead" to make sure imported texts from the people who use their 
> text processors like a typewriter will still look acceptable in your 
> layout under Scribus.
To allow the import of openoffice.org files, it is best to use Styles in 
oowriter. As long as the fonts are available, Scribus does a pretty good 
job of making very similar styles.

Greg