riverose.blogg.se - Scribus publisher

In Scribus File -> Import -> OpenOffice Draw fileĪlternately, it may be better to export the plain text content from the Publisher document (you can use MS Word to save it as plain text, or you can use OO.o to open a word doc and save an OO.o doc so Scribus can preserve some of the text formatting), then recreate the document from that and the images used in the original.In OpenOffice with sxw file go to File -> Save as in OpenOffice Draw format (eg.In OpenOffice go to File -> Save as in OpenOffice Writer format (eg.Go to menu Edit -> Select All (Ctrl+A).You may be able to import an approximation of the document by following this process:

3 Produce a PDF and use it to help you redo the layout in Scribus.

Some may even prefer it, I just can't bring myself to call this a keeper by any means. It's still has a lot to offer for being free and definitely better than nothing. For the most part, it was clunky and just a pain to use. so I would definitely use other types of office software over this.

It didn't have well placed options in my opinion, kept giving me errors whenever I placed a frame, would hang at start up, etc. I don't know if GS had something to do with this or not. Saving as PDF had some issues as well, it would save but corrupted. When I would put an image into the frame, I could no longer resize my Scribus window and other things would quit responding. I also suggest reading the help file for instructions.Īside from that, I wasn't real enthused by this.

Also, it's better to install GS PRIOR to Scribus, if not, just go to "preferences", External Tools, find your GS install, and point to the correct directory. If you want to install GS, I suggest searching the web for it as Scribus had some dead links. First off, it gives you a warning that GhostScript is not installed, well, don't panic, you don't need it to use most of it anyway.