Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 28, 2006 03:21 AM
Scribus does not import embedded images, and it's not very good at importing tables and footnotes
Ever tried Quark? If you have just a little experience in DTP, you know that images are always stored separately.
To prevent Scribus from messing up the tables during the import, you might want to convert them to text
Yes, and you can use even better ways. This is page layout app, not an office suite!
If the Writer document contains footnotes, you can use a workaround to preserve them during the import.
See above: QuarkXPress?
Scribus doesn't support character styles
Not yet, but soon they will be there.
Scribus replaces spaces in the styles' names with _20_
That's not nice, but doesn't do any damage.
Scribus doesn't reflow the inserted text automatically
Not true.
you can't link styles, you can't apply borders, and you can't specify language
As part of paragraph styles, not yet. But of course you can apply language settings to text.
Scribus doesn't support bold and italics (WTF?! )
As a real DTP app, Scribus doesn't support fake italics and bolds. You need bolds and italics installed. That's a professional feature, not a shortcoming!
Scribus doesn't allow you to add dynamic fields with chapter names
Again, this a feature most commonly used in word processors or apps like FrameMaker. However, all of this will be implemented before the next stable version (1.4) is released. It seems you have never worked with QXP or PageMaker.
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Re:Scribus doesn't do....
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 28, 2006 03:21 AMEver tried Quark? If you have just a little experience in DTP, you know that images are always stored separately.
To prevent Scribus from messing up the tables during the import, you might want to convert them to text
Yes, and you can use even better ways. This is page layout app, not an office suite!
If the Writer document contains footnotes, you can use a workaround to preserve them during the import.
See above: QuarkXPress?
Scribus doesn't support character styles
Not yet, but soon they will be there.
Scribus replaces spaces in the styles' names with _20_
That's not nice, but doesn't do any damage.
Scribus doesn't reflow the inserted text automatically
Not true.
you can't link styles, you can't apply borders, and you can't specify language
As part of paragraph styles, not yet. But of course you can apply language settings to text.
Scribus doesn't support bold and italics (WTF?! )
As a real DTP app, Scribus doesn't support fake italics and bolds. You need bolds and italics installed. That's a professional feature, not a shortcoming!
Scribus doesn't allow you to add dynamic fields with chapter names
Again, this a feature most commonly used in word processors or apps like FrameMaker. However, all of this will be implemented before the next stable version (1.4) is released. It seems you have never worked with QXP or PageMaker.
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