[scribus] OpenOffice Writer importer

[John Culleton]

On Monday 03 August 2009 01:14:39 pm Andreas Speck wrote:
> John Culleton wrote:
> > On Monday 03 August 2009 11:08:34 am Jean Basile wrote:
> >> What's the status of the OO Writer importer? What I have
> >> installed via the Ubuntu repository hosted by scribus.info
> >> imports the notes as well within the text in an ugly way.
> >>
> >>
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> > Ran some tests. Even the latest Scribus doesn't handle the
> > notes in a pretty fashion. The quick way to get rid of those
> > pesky notes is to save the file from OO Writer as text and
> > reformat the text in Scribus.  The slower way is to go through
> > the document in OO Writer and delete each note.
> >
> > And of course you can edit in Scribus as well.
>
> I haven't tried to use the importer recently. My workaround for a
> text with footnotes is to save as html from OOo, which puts all
> footnotes nicely numbered at the end of the document. You can
> then easily import this html document, or just copy/paste from
> OOo.
>
> Andreas


Not sure if the OP meant footnotes or the comment feature, also 
called notes, popular with MSword and its clones. 


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