[scribus] epub and PDF import filter

[Dave Johnson]

ePub is kinder, Apple, and Google books. .epub, . Mini etc.

On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 5:08 PM David Burden <davidgburden at outlook.com>
wrote:

> 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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