Hello all,
I have just started to use Scribus for a report that I wrote in LibreOffice writer. I experience trouble/unexpected behavior when getting my text into Scribus text frames.
My .odt document contains styles for text fields, header levels, etc. as well as direct formatting of text (italics, bold, superscript). After creating a text frame and use the "Get text..." option, I import the .odt with the following settings:
- "Import text only" de-selected
- "Overwrite styles" selected
- "Merge Paragraph Styles" de-selected
- "Use document name as a prefix for paragraph styles" selected
When the test has been imported all formatting of styles and of the directly formatted text is gone. I have no super and subscript, bold text anymore. Moreover the different section styles are not shown and everything is displayed as plain text.
Moreover, in LibreOffice when I import a small document that only contains a title row with style name "Title" and three paragraphs with style name "Text body" the import will create five new styles named "default_style", "Title", "Text body", "P1", "P2", and "P3" (that are all prepended by the document title btw.). Although clearly assigned the "Text body" style in LibreOffice, the three paragraphs are assigned the "P1", "P2", and "P3" styles that were imported. Clearly, the .odt importer has this assignment of the paragraph style wrong.
I have attached the the example file to this forum post (what!? cannot attach .odt file directly in this forum?!)
All these issues prevent me from using my 100 page Libreoffice document in Scribus.
Is there anyone who can give me advise or instructions on this matter. Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks, Pim