Hi Ale, I'm all for simple, it just has to work cleanly. I'll be glad to submit a few files, and to experiment with getting the plugin to work, if I can help at all.
And I understand about W/E promises, no worries ;) -- Ciao Richard Foley Supporting Naked Activities http://www.naktiv.net On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 04:26:42PM +0200, ale rimoldi wrote: > hi richard, > > > Hi folks, > > > > I recall from earlier discussions on the list, that an epub exporter > > was planned, but not integrated, for Scribus. The recommendation at > > that time was to export from Scribus to PDF, and then to use Calibre > > to go from PDF to epub. > > > > The problem I have is that while the Scribus-exported.PDF is spot-on > > perfect, printed to hard copy via LSI, etc., the resulting > > Calibre-exported.epub is complete rubbish. I used the following > > command: > > > > ebook-convert in.pdf out.epub --enable-heuristics > > > > I realize this is not a Calibre support forum, please bear with me. > > However, using PDF as the intermediary, when all the information is > > already in Scribus still strikes me as slightly odd. Perhaps that's > > because I don't understand file import/export/conversions, but I was > > hoping to go directly from Scribus to epub, and remove one link in > > the chain. > > > > Does anyone have any other suggestions of how to either improve the > > epub, or to get directly to an epub, from Scribus itself? Or perhaps > > how to improve the pdf->epub so that it's usable? All help tips > > appreciated. > > i'm currently working on the epub exporter from scribus 1.5svn. > > the pieces are slowly coming (again) together... > > here you can follow the improvements: > > https://github.com/aoloe/scribus-plugin-export-epub > > it currently creates an epub, with an empty xhtml file per section... > ... and i'm working on reintegrating the text export (the task should > be done before the end of the (long) weekend... but i don't want to > make promises i can't hold). > > > ciao > a.l.e > > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net
