[scribus] epub and PDF import filter

[JLuc]

interestingly there is an export to epub plugin for scribus
https://github.com/aoloe/scribus-plugin-export-epub

it needs scribus recompile though,
and seems unfinished
i didnt try it
maybe it needs feedbacks or help

JLuc

Le 21/03/2020 à 02:10, "Christoph Schäfer" a écrit :
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>> Gesendet: Freitag, 20. März 2020 um 23:44 Uhr
>> Von: "Dave Johnson" <davefilms.us at gmail.com>
>> An: "Scribus User Mailing List" <scribus at lists.scribus.net>
>> Betreff: Re: [scribus] epub and PDF import filter
>>
>> Mobi
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>> On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 5:43 PM Dave Johnson <davefilms.us at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> ePub is kinder, Apple, and Google books. .epub, . Mini etc.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 5:08 PM David Burden <davidgburden at outlook.com>
>>> wrote:
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>>>> As a british graphic designer what is epub?
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>>>> From: Dave Johnson <davefilms.us at gmail.com>
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>>>>
>>>> LibreOffice imports as text.
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 11:26 AM John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com>
>>>> wrote:
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>>>>> 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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> Hi,
> 
> 
> Some additional information: You can use Calibre (Free Software and cross-platform) to convert ePUB-Files into many formats, including those that Scribus can import. In the default installation, these are DOCX and RTF (in Scribus 15.x). If you only need the formatted text, you should use DOCX. If you also need the included images, you should choose RTF, because the RTF import filter in Scribus 1.5.x loads pixel graphics interspersed with text quite accurately. Please note that you need to import the files into a text frame.
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> There are also many plug-ins available for Calibre and also Sigil, an eBook editing programme, which provide additional import and export filters.
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> 
> HTH,
> Christoph
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