[scribus] epub and PDF import filter

[Sveinn í Felli]

No wonder you ask, as a graphic designer ;-)

EPUB is one format for e-books, destined to be read on an e-book reader 
(translation: a Kindle, Nook or similar). Think about EPUB as a 
structured XML-file with searchable text, a TOC and links back and 
forth, perhaps with illustrations and often a graphical front page (the 
cover).
Most e-book reader devices can also display PDF-files, sometimes 
specially crafted to look nice on aforementioned devices.

Due to their nature, EPUBs are not really designed for printing and thus 
quite outside of the scope Scribus tries to address; nevertheless in 
many cases it happens that people are publishing the same material for 
various media (web, print, e-readers) and would like a simple way of 
doing so.

Hope this helps (even if simplistic),

Best regards,
Sveinn í Felli


Þann 20.3.2020 22:05, skrifaði David Burden:
> As a british graphic designer what is epub?
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> LibreOffice imports as text.
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> On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 11:26 AM John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, 20 Mar 2020 11:06:20 -0400
>> Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> dijo:
>>
>>> On 3/20/20 10:18 AM, ale rimoldi wrote:
>>>> hi
>>>>
>>>> a question from my side:
>>>>
>>>> what would be the use of an epub import?
>>>>
>>>> i'm asking for a cousin...
>>>
>>> I was wondering this too. The point-of-view of a PDF (DTP) and an epub
>>> is so different. The first wants to have a very structured design and
>>> layout, such as Scribus will do, but epubs are very much unstructured,
>>> and how they display depends a lot on the viewer used.
>>>
>>> I just tried importing epubs to LibreOffice, and had no success - they
>>> were all said to be "corrupt". You could certainly unzip an epub and
>>> get to the xhtml files and import them into text frames in Scribus.
>>
>> I suppose I should ask this on a LibreOffice forum, but does the LO
>> import PDF filter bring in the file as editable text, or as vector
>> objects? I suspect the latter, and if so, then the best way to get the
>> PDF into either LO or Scribus and have it editable as text is to copy
>> and paste from the PDF file.
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