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IDProjectCategoryView StatusLast Update
0012633ScribusImport / Exportpublic2025-03-26 20:05
Reporterbugmen0t Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeverityfeatureReproducibilityalways
Status feedbackResolutionopen 
Product Version1.5.0svn 
Summary0012633: Feature Request: Import/Export of EPUB3 file format
DescriptionHello,
I would love to switch all the way to free software, however I am held back by Adobe InDesign. This is the closest tool to getting the job done, however, it does not support import and export of the EPUB3 file format. If possible please add native support for this open standard.

Update by @nitramr:
Specs EPUB 3.3 https://www.w3.org/TR/epub/
For reference: Sigil EPUB importer: https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/Sigil/blob/master/src/Importers/ImportEPUB.cpp
Steps To Reproduce1) Download a common EPUB
2) Try to open it with Scribus, it isn't supported.
3) Try exporting anything to EPUB.
Additional Informationhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB
TagsNo tags attached.
PatchNo

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ale

2014-08-26 18:49

manager   ~0033353

epub import should be rather simple to implement, as soon as the html import is made usable...

it would help if you could provide a set of epub files and the matching .sla files that would show how the file should have been imported.

Kunda

2014-08-27 23:40

updater   ~0033355

Last edited: 2014-08-27 23:42

OP, will you be kind enough to attach what a-l-e asked in 0012633:0033353
Thank you in advance.

nitramr

2025-03-25 17:22

developer   ~0052338

Last edited: 2025-03-25 17:22

Here are some examples of EPUB 3.0 documents.
https://idpf.github.io/epub3-samples/30/samples.html

Each EPUB file is a compressed zip file and contains single xhtml files + assets.

ale

2025-03-26 19:29

manager   ~0052340

technically, it should not be hard to import content from (well formed) epub files.

my request above, would rather for getting actual use cases of content that needs to be imported and how the result would look like in scribus.

personally, i see very well why somebody would want scribus to create an epub from a scribus document, but fail at seeing a use case where somebody would produce an epub file and then want to import that into scribus.

cbradney

2025-03-26 19:32

administrator   ~0052341

If a source file is produced by party A and party B wants to include it in a document, then we'd need an import function.

ale

2025-03-26 20:05

manager   ~0052343

personally, i have never heard of epub files being used for exchanging information that should be further processed.

that's why i'm asking for actual examples to see what kind of documents are those.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2014-08-26 17:07 bugmen0t New Issue
2014-08-26 18:49 ale Note Added: 0033353
2014-08-27 23:40 Kunda Note Added: 0033355
2014-08-27 23:40 Kunda Status new => feedback
2014-08-27 23:42 Kunda Note Edited: 0033355
2025-03-25 17:16 nitramr Description Updated
2025-03-25 17:16 nitramr Patch => No
2025-03-25 17:22 nitramr Note Added: 0052338
2025-03-25 17:22 nitramr Note Edited: 0052338
2025-03-26 19:29 ale Note Added: 0052340
2025-03-26 19:32 cbradney Note Added: 0052341
2025-03-26 20:05 ale Note Added: 0052343