Am Mittwoch, 24. Oktober 2007 18:16:34 schrieb Julian Robbins: > Gregory Pittman wrote: > > Julian Robbins wrote: > >> Hi > >> > >> Is there a quick way to extract all the text from a Scribus file in > >> one go? I could do this was a generated PDF, but I believe that > >> doesnt quite work correctly either, adding lots of spaces right > >> through the words. > > > > Attached is an imperfect script to do this. The imperfections are: > > 1. it relies on the frames' names beginning with "Text" to recognize > > them. > > 2. If text frames are linked you will get duplicate output -- > > everything is there, but perhaps multiple times. > > > > It will also give the source of each image frame's image. > > > > I did this as an exercise so I didn't bother to keep working on it. If > > you added a test of a frame's contents you could fix problem number 1. > > Hi Greg > > Thanks for that. In the end, I had to select each text item separately, > and save them separately. > > Is this something that users would find useful? If so, perhaps it can be > added as a feature request to the bug tracker. I think so, as you can't > extract all the text usefully from the PDF itself.
There is already a feature request ;) Cheers Christoph
