So what with the non-functional Undo/Redo, together with such a basic import problem, I cannot conclude that Scribus is ready to be used for serious dtp. Well, the gist of what I gleaned from the IRC discussion (besides the aforementioned shortage of patience for beginners), is that it's quite common for this to happen, and that restyling and/or reformatting text in Scribus is almost always needed (even with OOWriter). Unfortunately, when I imported the styled and formatted text, some of the text had lost its formatting, and in some cases, had even lost its style What the heck?!! (only text is imported from Word, no styles or formatting) So that's what I did - I created the text of my doc in OO, carefully defining and applying Styles throughout. And that if OpenOffice Writer is used to create the text of the document, Styles are imported automatically into Scribus, avoiding the need to define and apply these important styles in Scribus. Further I learned about the importance of Styles in Scribus. Then both are imported into and combined in the layout that you've created in Scribus. The whole idea is to create your text in a text editor, and formatted as needed and to create your graphics in some graphics editor. One of the first things I read, as I began to study Scribus, is that Scribus is not to be thought of or used as a text editor to format text. The short version of this part of the story, is there seems little patience for Scribus beginners.
Inkscape to scribus how to#
So another couple of hours trying to figure out how to access IRC chat, downloading a client and trying to figure out how to set it up, I finally found myself hooked up and typing my problem. Well, to be fair, there are apparently a couple of forums for non-English-readers/writers.Īfter spending several hours reading what tutorials I could find, I still could not solve what seem to me to be very, very basic problems. The only 2 options for Scribus support (beyond tutorials) are 1 - join mailing list (email annoys me) or 2 - IRC chat (I've never tried before). What has been nearly a deal-breaker, is the lack of email, or message board style forum, for support. That's been frustrating, but certainly not a deal-breaker. Documentation scattered around several different webpages, websites, and Help menu, I've learned, is more or less status quo for open source programs in active development. Unfortunately, I'm quite disappointedĪny computer program which uses a gui, that does not have functioning Undo/Redo, should not see the light of day imo, even if it's open source and free! For goodness sakes, a desktop publisher without Undo? omg! That was the first problem I ran into.
Inkscape to scribus pdf#
And I've seen it suggested for others as well, even by me (trust too much in advice given to me ) So now I've finally gotten around to trying to produce a PDF from some Inkscape drawings, actually I'm trying to write some tutorials, using Scribus. You know, Scribus has been recommended for me, to convert Inkscape images which contain gradients, blurs and filters to PDF.
Certainly not professionally, that's for sure!
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