Dear Maintainer,

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   * What led up to the situation?
I wanted to combine two Scribus files into a single doecument

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?
I used the Page | Import menu item to import the second document into the first,
creating new pages at the end of the first document.

   * What was the outcome of this action?
The pages imported and all the text appeared to be there but the imported pages
didn't have the correct formatting. Font sizes, colours and possibly even character
set were wrong. Some text displayed as boxes instead of characters.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?
I wanted the appended document to look the way it did in its own document.


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control: tag -1 upstream
control: forwarded -1 http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=11420

Importing does not work very well, and upstream confirmed so.
If you want more details please take a look at that upstream bug.

I'd like too :)

From time to time I've to deal with something similar, luckily for what
I do I don't need to import stuff that often, and never something big to
cause me trouble at fixing.

What confuses me about this is why it happens. When you import a
document into another, the styles are picked up and renamed to avoid
duplicate names. The new names replace the names in the imported
document so it should work perfectly every time.

Fortunately there is pdfunite, so I can export the individual documents
and join the pdfs. However that gets messy after a few documents.