[Scribus] Kerning problems with pdftotext

[Gregory Pittman]

Le Tigre wrote:
>> However, if you follow the instructions at
>> http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Web_optimised_PDF , you will find that
>> (apart from compressing the PDF files, which you were not asking for) the
>> text extracted by pdftotext now becomes an almost perfect representation
>> of the original text.
>>   I haven't investigated this in detail, and there may be encoding issues,
>> etc, but I found the results striking.
>>
>>     
>
> Well it does work very fine indeed!
>
> So sla -> pdf -> ps -> pdf -> txt is a perfect process.
>   
FWIW, here is my short script to pull out the contents of text frames
and put them into a text file. It needs some tweaking -- for example, a
better test for a text frame, rather than that the name of the frame
begins with 'Text'.

Nonetheless, it's a way from within Scribus to extract the text content
quickly. Because of its brevity, it should be easy to understand.

Greg
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