Ok, after further delving into this t's beginning to look like a problem with Libre Office. I used its html exporter and opened the source and this is what it looked like http://twitpic.com/9b9081
Out of interest, Gregory, what did you use to export the document to html? Antonio On 18 April 2012 13:51, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote: > On 04/17/2012 07:51 PM, Antonio Roberts wrote: >> >> As a work-around to Scribus not yet supporting Footnotes I'm following >> the advice found on the Scribus wiki that recommends exporting your >> document in HTML format and then adding in the footnotes manually >> (source: http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Footnotes_in_Scribus). This >> works until you try and import a HTML document that has images as the >> HTML importer tries to import the image as text. As images, when >> opened in a text editor, consist of many hundreds of lines of text, >> this often results in Scribus freezing. >> >> Is there a way to import an HTML document that has images? I just >> don't want to have to go through my 50-page document and delete all of >> the images first > > > This seems odd. I think you should look at the HTML file under a text > editor. > > I just did this same thing, with an HTML I created with a plain text editor, > and import went Ok, with Paragraph styles created, and the images just > showed up as the link in parentheses: > > (img, src:path/to/image.png) > > which I think is a useful feature, in case you want to add image frames to > your Scribus document. > > Greg > > > > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net -- ============================ antonio at hellocatfood.com http://www.hellocatfood.com ============================
