Craig Ringer wrote: > Roger wrote: >> Is is possible to convert a Scribus file to be a web page .html >> Google hasn't helped me here, Has anyone done this. > > No. > > There's been talk of an HTML export plugin, but there are a variety of > issues that make it harder than you'd think (and less useful). Scribus > is designed for exact positioning and sizing of elements. HTML on the > other hand has to be viewable on many different sizes of screens with > different browsers, different font sizes, etc, so it tends to be less > exact about where everything goes. > > It's possible to make HTML that is always locked to exact positions and > sizes, but it's generally a bad idea as people with very high or low > detail displays and people with limited vision find it very hard to handle. > > Additionally, Scribus's text features cannot be reproduced in HTML. > There's no way to control kerning in HTML, and the user-agent expects to > do its own justification & text flow. Working around these issues would > probably involve writing downright awful HTML that absolutely positions > every character individually - and explodes into an unreadable mess when > viewed with non-default font sizes.
What could be possible, though, was to use just some of the formatting and discard others. Some manual fiddling might be useful, but anyway: * Export italics and bold * Case sensitive * Contiguous text and not frame based (one link of chained frames before the next) * Images * Headlines and normal text (could be difficult to distinguish though in some cases). Just using h1 etc. would be possible, then <p> for the smallest font. * Footnotes could be a problem ... For many cases though I imagine this would be better than nothing, and at least giving a start basis to work upon -- Just my 2 cent :-) Best regards Axel Bojer
