[scribus] epub and PDF import filter

[David Burden]

As a british graphic designer what is epub?

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From: Dave Johnson <davefilms.us at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2020 9:17:31 PM
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Subject: Re: [scribus] epub and PDF import filter

LibreOffice imports as text.

On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 11:26 AM John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Mar 2020 11:06:20 -0400
> Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> dijo:
>
> >On 3/20/20 10:18 AM, ale rimoldi wrote:
> >> hi
> >>
> >> a question from my side:
> >>
> >> what would be the use of an epub import?
> >>
> >> i'm asking for a cousin...
> >
> >I was wondering this too. The point-of-view of a PDF (DTP) and an epub
> >is so different. The first wants to have a very structured design and
> >layout, such as Scribus will do, but epubs are very much unstructured,
> >and how they display depends a lot on the viewer used.
> >
> >I just tried importing epubs to LibreOffice, and had no success - they
> >were all said to be "corrupt". You could certainly unzip an epub and
> >get to the xhtml files and import them into text frames in Scribus.
>
> I suppose I should ask this on a LibreOffice forum, but does the LO
> import PDF filter bring in the file as editable text, or as vector
> objects? I suspect the latter, and if so, then the best way to get the
> PDF into either LO or Scribus and have it editable as text is to copy
> and paste from the PDF file.
>
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