No wonder you ask, as a graphic designer ;-)
EPUB is one format for e-books, destined to be read on an e-book reader
(translation: a Kindle, Nook or similar). Think about EPUB as a
structured XML-file with searchable text, a TOC and links back and
forth, perhaps with illustrations and often a graphical front page (the
cover).
Most e-book reader devices can also display PDF-files, sometimes
specially crafted to look nice on aforementioned devices.
Due to their nature, EPUBs are not really designed for printing and thus
quite outside of the scope Scribus tries to address; nevertheless in
many cases it happens that people are publishing the same material for
various media (web, print, e-readers) and would like a simple way of
doing so.
Hope this helps (even if simplistic),
Best regards,
Sveinn í Felli
Þann 20.3.2020 22:05, skrifaði David Burden:
As a british graphic designer what is epub?
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From: Dave Johnson <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2020 9:17:31 PM
To: Scribus User Mailing List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [scribus] epub and PDF import filter
LibreOffice imports as text.
On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 11:26 AM John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:
On Fri, 20 Mar 2020 11:06:20 -0400
Gregory Pittman <[email protected]> dijo:
On 3/20/20 10:18 AM, ale rimoldi wrote:
hi
a question from my side:
what would be the use of an epub import?
i'm asking for a cousin...
I was wondering this too. The point-of-view of a PDF (DTP) and an epub
is so different. The first wants to have a very structured design and
layout, such as Scribus will do, but epubs are very much unstructured,
and how they display depends a lot on the viewer used.
I just tried importing epubs to LibreOffice, and had no success - they
were all said to be "corrupt". You could certainly unzip an epub and
get to the xhtml files and import them into text frames in Scribus.
I suppose I should ask this on a LibreOffice forum, but does the LO
import PDF filter bring in the file as editable text, or as vector
objects? I suspect the latter, and if so, then the best way to get the
PDF into either LO or Scribus and have it editable as text is to copy
and paste from the PDF file.
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