[scribus-dev] updating PDF importing.

NASA Jeff tallboy258 at gmail.com
Sat May 9 14:40:17 UTC 2020


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On Sat, 9 May 2020 at 15:36, NASA Jeff <tallboy258 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've almost got Scribus building with a modern version of visual studio
> (2019). So far I've pretty much ported to the latest version of QT, I still
> have to migrate the unsupported webkit to the newer webengine but that,
> hopefully, shouldn't prove too difficult.
>
> Once I've got InkScape and Scribus building on windows I can take a look
> at how they both implement PDF import and look at raising the bugs and
> producing patches.
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> On Sat, 9 May 2020 at 14:38, JLuc <jluc at no-log.org> wrote:
>
>> Le 09/05/2020 à 10:12, NASA Jeff a écrit :
>> > Inkscapes internal library for importing pdf files (based on POPPLER),
>> now supports importing text as text as opposed to
>> > vectors.
>> > I'd like to have a crack at updating the PDF import in Scribus (which I
>> see if based on POPPLER and or PODOFO, so that
>> > it has comparable features to Inkscape's PDF import.
>> Great project.
>> Wellcome !
>>
>> > What's the best way to keep in touch with the dev team in case I have
>> any issues or need to query standard and
>> > requirements for Scribus along the way?
>>
>> Hard to say.
>> I'm not one of the devs but my experience is that
>> #scribus on freenode is a place where a chat might happen sometime
>> (rather evening european time)
>> and could help define a general agreement on how to best proceed.
>> Good would be to go step by step and create bug reports with patches.
>>
>> As for the features,
>> I wonder if the core-devs would request an option for importing text as
>> vector glyphs OR real text frame.
>> SVG import is also very limited in scribus and could benefit of an
>> improvement.
>>
>> JL
>>
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