Gregory Pittman wrote: > Julian Robbins wrote: >> Hi >> >> Is there a quick way to extract all the text from a Scribus file in >> one go? I could do this was a generated PDF, but I believe that >> doesnt quite work correctly either, adding lots of spaces right >> through the words. > Attached is an imperfect script to do this. The imperfections are: > 1. it relies on the frames' names beginning with "Text" to recognize > them. > 2. If text frames are linked you will get duplicate output -- > everything is there, but perhaps multiple times. > > It will also give the source of each image frame's image. > > I did this as an exercise so I didn't bother to keep working on it. If > you added a test of a frame's contents you could fix problem number 1. Hi Greg
Thanks for that. In the end, I had to select each text item separately, and save them separately. Is this something that users would find useful? If so, perhaps it can be added as a feature request to the bug tracker. I think so, as you can't extract all the text usefully from the PDF itself. Cheers Julian
