[Scribus] Easy way to extract all text from a Scribus File?

Christoph Schäfer christoph-schaefer
Wed Oct 24 18:38:48 CEST 2007


Am Mittwoch, 24. Oktober 2007 18:16:34 schrieb Julian Robbins:
> Gregory Pittman wrote:
> > Julian Robbins wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> Is there a quick way to extract all the text from a Scribus file in
> >> one go? I could do this was a generated PDF, but I believe that
> >> doesnt quite work correctly either, adding lots of spaces right
> >> through the words.
> >
> > Attached is an imperfect script to do this. The imperfections are:
> > 1. it relies on the frames' names beginning with "Text" to recognize
> > them.
> > 2. If text frames are linked you will get duplicate output --
> > everything is there, but perhaps multiple times.
> >
> > It will also give the source of each image frame's image.
> >
> > I did this as an exercise so I didn't bother to keep working on it. If
> > you added a test of a frame's contents you could fix problem number 1.
>
> Hi Greg
>
> Thanks for that. In the end, I had to select each text item separately,
> and save them separately.
>
> Is this something that users would find useful? If so, perhaps it can be
> added as a feature request to the bug tracker. I think so, as you can't
> extract all the text usefully from the PDF itself.

There is already a feature request ;)

Cheers

Christoph



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