[scribus] Importing large ODT file.

[Gregory Pittman]

On 05/17/2011 11:40 AM, John Culleton wrote:
> I have a customer's large (212) page doc file. I converted it to odt in
> Open Office Writer. Now I am trying to import it into Scribus 1.4.0 RC3. I
> set up the page to the same dimensions and the same margins and
> automatically linked text frames. Scribus seems to have stalled. Must I
> break up the input file into smaller segments?
>
> If I import the input file as txt instead of odt will things go better?
>
You may have to do that. If you have antiword, you should be able to 
import the .doc file directly -- it will only import the text, no styles.
I'm not sure if there might be some translation issues with .doc to 
.odt; perhaps these are your problem. Even so, 212 pages is a lot.

Greg