On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 07:48:38 -0500 John Culleton <John at wexfordpress.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 13:26:28 +0100 > "a.l.e" <ale.comp_06 at xox.ch> wrote: > > > hi > > > > > >> Unfortunately, you can only set Automatic > > >> text frames when you create a new document. > > >> The workaround might be to create a new one > > >> and import your pages from the old one if > > >> you've already started. > > > Is there any technical reason why it isn't > > > possible to enable automatic text frames > > > after a document have been created? Or is it > > > just a matter of lack of developer time for > > > that feature? > > > > > > > in my eyes, it should only be possible to set > > it in the document settings and not in the new > > file dialog. > > > > who thinks about it, when creating the file? > > > > > Well I do. > > But bowing to the current feature set I have > just broken the customer-supplied pdf file into > chapter segments via pdftk. Than as needed I > will extract the text into individual text > files from each such segment. Here is my script > for the extractions: > ----------------------------- > pdftk A=jan25.pdf cat A27-44 output > chapter_2.pdf pdftk A=jan25.pdf cat A48-77 > output chapter_3.pdf pdftk A=jan25.pdf cat > A78-99 output chapter_4.pdf pdftk A=jan25.pdf > cat A100-115 output chapter_5.pdf pdftk > A=jan25.pdf cat A116-161 output chapter_6.pdf > pdftk A=jan25.pdf cat A162-185 output > chapter_7.pdf pdftk A=jan25.pdf cat A186-198 > output append.pdf pdftk A=jan25.pdf cat > A199-200 output ack.pdf pdftk A=jan25.pdf cat > A201-208 output index.pdf > --------------------------------------------- > Since the customer uses roman numbers for the > frontmatter I had to determine the page ranges > by scanning the original pdf in okular and > noting the true page numbers for each chapter > head. pdftk doesn't work on page numbers but on > true page order disregarding numeration. > > I had a similar script for extracting the > contents of each pdf chapter etc. subfile into a > text file. These text subfiles are useful in > both scribus and the context version of TeX. > > > > > There is a great huge gotcha however. I create each 50 page segment with text frame linking enabled. Now I want to break the frames apart while retaining the text currently in each. There doesn't seem to be a way to do this even if I insert individual end of frame markers. Do I need to break the input text for each segment into 50 separate files? -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html Updated PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus 1.4.5" coming soon at http://www.booklocker.com/!
