[scribus] epub and PDF import filter

Gregory Pittman gpittman at iglou.com
Sun Mar 22 15:18:16 UTC 2020


On 3/20/20 6:35 PM, Sveinn í Felli wrote:
> 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).

An epub is a zipped file, which when unzipped, has directories for text, which is in xhtml format, images, fonts, styles, potentially audio and video.
If you simply change the name of some file, like example.epub to example.zip, you can unzip the file and see its structure and contents. This would be one way of importing an epub to Scribus, and for some uses, might in the end be less work and show better results.

Greg




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