[Scribus] A possibly-not-quite-scribus question...

[Craig Bradney]

Hi Mark

> As I said earlier, I'm using scribus to do up a newsletter.
> Now prior to finding scribus I used to do this with LaTeX, 
> so scribus represents a savings in time of about, oh, 
> fifty million percent or so :) 
> 
> However, the one feature that the LaTeX newsletter had which
> I miss quite a lot was that you could run latex2html on the
> source and have a set of webpages in HTML which contained the
> newsletter. Now putting Scribus' PDF file on the website for
> this is certainly doable, and if I downsample the images to
> 72dpi it even reduces the size to something reasonably
> acceptable - but what I'd really like is some way to take
> either the scribus file or the PDF and convert it to actual
> HTML to avoid 3.5Mb downloads...
> 
> Anyone got any bright ideas?

At this point theres no Scribus function or a way to convert the SLA
format. I think this will come soon enough, but not in time for your
next letter or probably the next one.

There is pdf2html at
http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~clock/twibright/pdf2html/

though Ive never tried it and it produces greyscale images only.. might
be worth trying

Craig
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