Scribus xhtml using Scripter
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Why not just do this straight up to xhtml with Scripter? Well, why not?
This might serve as a quick way to get the content to a format easily importable to an ePub editor like Sigil.
Don't forget the siblings: Scribus XML using Scripter and Scribus files as XML.
export2xhtml.py
#!/usr/bin/env python
# File: export2xhtml.py - Extracts the content from a document, saving to an xhtml file
# 2013.11.01 Gregory Pittman
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
import scribus
def exportText(textfile):
page = 1
pagenum = scribus.pageCount()
T = []
content = []
T.append('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>\n')
T.append('<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">\n')
T.append('<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">\n<body>')
T.append('<h2>Scribus ' + str(scribus.scribus_version_info[0]) + '.' + str(scribus.scribus_version_info[1]) + '.' + str(scribus.scribus_version_info[2]) + str(scribus.scribus_version_info[3]) + '</h2>\n')
while (page <= pagenum):
scribus.gotoPage(page)
pagesize = scribus.getPageSize()
d = scribus.getPageItems()
strpage = str(page)
T.append('<h3>Part '+ strpage + '</h3>\n')
for item in d:
if (item[1] == 4):
filtered = '<p>'
contents = scribus.getAllText(item[0])
if (contents in content):
contents = ''
else:
for char in contents:
if (ord(char) == 28):
char = ' '
elif (ord(char) == 27):
char = chr(10)
elif (ord(char) == 38):
char = '&'
elif ((ord(char) == 13) or (ord(char) == 10)):
char = "</p>\n<p>" # the added newline makes the source look better
filtered = filtered + char
contents = filtered
T.append('<table border="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td width="700px"><p>' + contents + '</p>\n')
T.append('</p></td></tr></table>\n')
content.append(contents)
elif (item[1] == 2):
imgname = scribus.getImageFile(item[0])
imgsize = scribus.getSize(item[0])
picwidth = int(700 * imgsize[0]/pagesize[0])
T.append('<p><table border="0">\n<tr>\n<td><img src="' + imgname + '" width="' + str(picwidth) + 'px" /></td>\n</tr>\n</table></p>\n')
page += 1
T.append('</body></html>\n')
output_file = open(textfile,'w')
output_file.writelines(T)
output_file.close()
endmessage = textfile + ' was created'
scribus.messageBox("Finished", endmessage,icon=0,button1=1)
if scribus.haveDoc():
textfile = scribus.fileDialog('Enter name of file to save to', \
filter='Text Files (*.xhtml);;All Files (*)')
try:
if textfile == '':
raise Exception
exportText(textfile)
except Exception, e:
print e
else:
scribus.messageBox('Export Error', 'You need a Document open, and a frame selected.', \
icon=0, button1=1)