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

[Gregory Pittman]

Julian Robbins wrote:
> 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.
>   
If you run the script, you will find it works well within its restrictions.

Greg