[scribus] epub and PDF import filter

[Dave Johnson]

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On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 5:43 PM Dave Johnson <davefilms.us at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>> From: Dave Johnson <davefilms.us at gmail.com>
>> Sent: Friday, March 20, 2020 9:17:31 PM
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>> Subject: Re: [scribus] epub and PDF import filter
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>> LibreOffice imports as text.
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 11:26 AM John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > 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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Dave Johnson
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