[scribus] noob text format question

[Alison Saylor]

hmm, sounds like good information but i'm afraid i don't know what a
pdflatex file is nor a .tex file.

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:34 AM, John Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 April 2010 13:12:38 Alison Saylor wrote:
>> thank you!  and can i ask you another question?  even if i download
>> that, i'll still have the format changing on me though not so
>> drastically as going from word to plain text.  is there a way to avoid
>> that?  i am having files sent to me in word and then i need to put
>> them into scribus.  when i had the set up before where i converted
>> them to open office after downloading them, the paragraphs would
>> disappear and i'd have to reinsert them by hand.  thank you for your
>> help!  really appreciate it!
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:09 AM, a.l.e <ale.comp_06 at xox.ch> wrote:
>> > hi alison
>> >
>> >>  sounds like you are saying there's a version of it for MACs.
>> >
>> > yes, get it from http://www.openoffice.org (and no other place)
>> >
>> > ciao
>> > a.l.e
>> >
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> We start with the overall task first, and then select the tool. If you
> import your doc file into Open Office Writer then you can save it as a .tex
> (in this case pdflatex) file.  Then pdflatex foo.tex will deliver a properly
> formatted pdf file.  Now this procedure does not use Scribus but it does
> deliver a properly formatted pdf file with minimum effort.
>
> If however you concentrate on the subtask of converting a .doc file to
> Scribus then the import of an .odt file as has been previously suggested is
> the way to go.
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