<div dir="ltr">Inkscapes internal library for importing pdf files (based on POPPLER), now supports importing text as text as opposed to vectors.<br><br>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.<br><br>Both Inkscape and Scribus are licensed under the GPL so there should be no licensing issues with doing this integration.<br><br>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?<br><br>Though I'm out of work due to poor health I've just finished off adding SVG import and export functionality to wick-editor and have worked on a few development projects over the last year or so as well as having taken a number of coursera courses to update my programming skills. I previously have around 15-20 years of experience as a software designer and developer with my last possession as a technical architect in which I mentored PhDs, PhD students as well as the rest of the team and was responsible for training, QA and software design as well as being a team leader.<br>Open source projects I've worked on in the past include a good period of working for CodeWeavers and the Wine project where I implemented DirectX 9 3D in the wine project bring DirectX 9 games to Linux.</div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br>
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