On 5/29/20 1:16 PM, Gregory Pittman wrote: > On 5/29/20 12:00 PM, JLuc wrote: >> Hello >> It's about a scribus created pdf but this is not strictly related to scribus >> : >> A friend on windows has proofread and annotated a scribus PDF document. >> When opening it on Ubuntu, some of the notes are OK readable, >> but some other are scrambled and some other seem to be cut in the middle of >> the text. >> >> It could be related to notes having accenctuated or special characters as " >> or « >> because none of the readable notes has such accenctuated characters afaict. >> I've tried with Evince and Okular. >> >> Do you have an advice on how to access correctly these notes on linux ? >> (Or on how to fix that in the annotation tool on windows ?) > > Hi JLuc, > > Here is an issue I just noticed yesterday, which might relate to your > problem. I used a script called ExtractText.py, which spits out the text > content of a document to a plain text file. I never seen problems with this > before. When I did this yesterday and tried to import this text into a new > document, the carriage returns were wrong -- running less on the file showed > that they were Ctrl-M instead of LF (line feed). > > There are 2 ways that will fix this text file. I used KWrite, which > interpreted the carriage returns Ok, then saved the file, and they were all > fixed to LFs and imported into Scribus properly. > The other option is to use dos2unix on the command line: > > dos2unix -n old.txt new.txt > > I wrote this script ExtractText.py and it's never done this before, so > something must have changed in Scribus, that it's not using UTF-8 > consistently. >
Interestingly, I tried using File > Export > Save Text, and this also messes up the saved text, but it becomes nonfixable by dos2unix. Greg ___ Scribus Mailing List: scribus@lists.scribus.net Edit your options or unsubscribe: http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus See also: http://wiki.scribus.net http://forums.scribus.net
