Julian Robbins wrote: > 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. > If you run the script, you will find it works well within its restrictions.
Greg
