[scribus] epub and PDF import filter

EcoC2S - Irucka Embry iembry at ecoccs.com
Thu Mar 26 23:42:51 UTC 2020


On 2020-03-22 10:18, Gregory Pittman wrote:
> 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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Thank you all for the useful information and discussion!

I originally asked the question because I want to import some books from 
Internet Archive into Scribus, edit them with Scribus (text and/or image 
frames), and then export the final PDF.

Irucka


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