On 11/8/18 9:42 AM, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: > >> Can Scribus import odts maintaining this formatting and layout in editable >> form? If not, could this be a request? > > Just had a look into an odt document. Its text/layout part consists mainly of > an .xml file. This contains simple text elements like paragraph styles, > linefeed commands + text which would have to be interpreted serially. Then > there are some elements like svg commands for lines etc. and commands for > boxes. > > All in all, I would say "everything is there" to rebuild the page from such > an xml (there is also a meta.xml file that contains basic page and paragraph > definitions for the whole document). > > You would have to code an interpreter which is able to re-build the page > after those definitions. No voodoo, but I guess even with help from the > LibreOffice guys, that's a long way mate ;) > > As a workaround, if the pages you get out of the OCR software are ok, maybe > just let LibreOffice make a PDF from it and include that into your Scribus > document. What do you think? >
The problem with importing a PDF is that the text glyphs are vector graphics, so rather difficult to edit. I have done this, and even altered text somewhat, but matching the size of new text with these glyphs is tricky. Greg
