[Scribus] Kerning problems with pdftotext

[Le Tigre]

lucien.taylor at oxil.co.uk a ?crit :
>> Shouldn't you already have the texts with your Scribus doc? No need  
>> to extract them from a pdf. Could use those when indexing.
> 
> Yes, of course .. but that would be a new manual system to accommodate  
> for Scribus documents only.  We *automatically* parse pdf, docs, and  
> xhtml for indexing and text-to-speech services.  The texttopdf lib  
> works like a dream with adobe generated pdfs, therefore it works for  
> our customers, which include government departments where  
> accessibility is a big issue.  However, it does not work with our own  
> Scribus documents and we are looking for a general solution.
> 
> We welcome the fact that this has been registered as a bug.  Although  
> absolute positioning is useful for print and screen rendering, it is  
> still text, and the final output should eventually be machine  
> readable, if only for accessibility reasons. However, I can accept  
> that the Scribus team have other things on their plate right now and I  
> appreciate the suggested work-arounds.
> 
> Lucien
> Oxford Information Labs
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One solution would (and maybe will) be a good export from Scribus files
of all texts (like "collect for output", but just text frames), or, of
course, the great workflow solution that we would all like to have!!

Raphael