[scribus] import xml to 1.5.0

John Culleton John at wexfordpress.com
Wed Mar 4 12:43:18 UTC 2015


On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 07:20:21 +1100
Owen <rcook at pcug.org.au> wrote:

> On Tue, 3 Mar 2015 11:38:02 -0500
> John Culleton <John at wexfordpress.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Just FYI I broke the pdf file apart into
> > one-page segments using pdftk and converted
> > each of those to individual text files. Wrote
> > a cobol program just to reduce the 200 plus
> > pdf pages to text. Then I am importing these
> > text pages into Scribus 1.5.0 and formatting
> > those pages by hand. I tried pasting the
> > individual pdf pages directly into Scribus
> > 1.5.0 as graphics but the reproduction was
> > lousy.
> 
> 
> 
> Import as a vector file.  File->Import-> Get
> vector file
> 
> If it is a complex pdf, some parts of it may
> not render on your screen, but it will export
> as a pdf just fine.
> 
> 
> 

That is the ticket. The screen allows for
multiple pages but that part is grayed out. Do I
need to link the pages for that to work? If that
part doesn't work then I will just import one
page at a time.  

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