[scribus] ODT into Scribus

[Gregory Pittman]

On 11/8/18 9:42 AM, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote:
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>> Can Scribus import odts maintaining this formatting and layout in editable form? If not, could this be a request?
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> Just had a look into an odt document. Its text/layout part consists mainly of an .xml file. This contains simple text elements like paragraph styles, linefeed commands + text which would have to be interpreted serially. Then there are some elements like svg commands for lines etc. and commands for boxes.
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> All in all, I would say "everything is there" to rebuild the page from such an xml (there is also a meta.xml file that contains basic page and paragraph definitions for the whole document).
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> You would have to code an interpreter which is able to re-build the page after those definitions. No voodoo, but I guess even with help from the LibreOffice guys, that's a long way mate ;)
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> As a workaround, if the pages you get out of the OCR software are ok, maybe just let LibreOffice make a PDF from it and include that into your Scribus document. What do you think?
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The problem with importing a PDF is that the text glyphs are vector graphics, so rather difficult to edit. I have done this, and even altered text somewhat, but matching the size of new text with these glyphs is tricky.

Greg