[scribus] 'No Style' problem when importing from Open Office

Chris Tregenza junk-scribus at tregenza.com
Sun Jul 5 13:31:22 CEST 2009


Just downloaded 1.3.5rc3 and this seems to fix the problem.

Thanks everyone.


Chris



Chris Tregenza wrote:
 >
 > Thanks Ole,
 >
 > Does anyone have a workaround - A way of importing text into Scribus 
whilst keeping the style information?
 >
 > I'm not worried about the actual formatting (point size etc) as that 
is what I want Scribus for. Being able retain the style types (Heading, 
Sub Heading etc) associated with the text is the vital bit I'm currently 
missing.
 >
 >
 > Chris
 >
 >
 >
 >  > Ole Madsen wrote:
 >
 >  >
 >  > I think it is a bug.  I experience much the same problem when I move a
 >  > text frame from one document to another by using the copy/paste
 >  > function. In release 1.3.3.12 this worked fine.  Perhaps someone in
 >  > the know would care to comment?
 >  >
 >  > /Ole
 >  > (Running Mandriva 2009.1 and 1.3.5svn)
 >  >
 >  >
 >  >
 >
 >>
 >>
 >> --- On Sat, 7/4/09, Chris Tregenza <junk-scribus at tregenza.com> wrote:
 >>
 >>> From: Chris Tregenza <junk-scribus at tregenza.com>
 >>> Subject: [scribus] 'No Style' problem when importing from Open Office
 >>> To: "Scribus User Mailing List" <scribus at lists.scribus.net>
 >>> Date: Saturday, July 4, 2009, 4:12 AM
 >>>
 >>> I have an Open Office (3.0.1) Writer document with some
 >>> basic styles set up.
 >>>
 >>> I'm importing the document into a frame in Scribus using
 >>> Get Text with the importer set to Automatic, I select
 >>> Overwrite and Merge Paragraph Styles on the Open Document
 >>> Importer Options.
 >>>
 >>> The text is imported and formatted OK, styles are created
 >>> and everything looks right.
 >>>
 >>> However when I go into Story Editor, everything is marked
 >>> as 'No Style'. It seems whilst the text is formatted
 >>> according to the styles, the text is not linked to the
 >>> styles.
 >>>
 >>> I was expecting all the text to linked to the imported
 >>> styles so that I could tweak the styles in Scribus and have
 >>> the updated formatting applied to all the text using that
 >>> style.
 >>>
 >>> Have I misunderstood how styles work or is this a bug?
 >>>
 >>> Running OSX 10.5, using 1.3.5svn, build ID
 >>> C-C-T-F-Q-Mac/Aqua
 >>>
 >>>
 >>>
 >>> Chris
 >>>
 >
 >>
 >
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