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it would be great for manuskript to able to import and export other file format. such as

PDF Open Document Format via open office/ libra office Scribus https://www.scribus.net/ movie magic screenwriter fade in adobe story Trelby Celtx Final Draft Amazon Storywriter Fountain DubScript Screenplay https://www.dubscript.com/

I guess manuskrit 0.6.0 will be the Import release :)

I made a table of actual import / export support.

As for your suggestions:

PDF Import: :x: Export: :white_check_mark:

Do we really want to import PDF?

Open Document Format via open office/ libra office Import: :ballot_box_with_check: Export: :white_check_mark:

ODT import will probably be added through pandoc.

Scribus Import: :x: Export: :x:

Something else entirely. I don't see how we could support either import or export. Do you?

Fountain

Fountain is a markup language, so a highlighter would be possible. But what would import look like? Should we list all the characters and places and create those? And then split the document as a sequence of scenes?

As for the export, well, I still don't understand how this is supposed to be exported. Can you give more details?

DubScript Screenplay

DubScript is plain text formatted with fountain highlighter, so nothing to support here.

movie magic screenwriter fade in adobe story Trelby # Is that still used? I think the last version is 5 yrs old! Celtx Final Draft Amazon Storywriter

This seems like a long list of mixed stuff.

Instead of trying to support everything I'd rather work with people real needs, to solve real problems.

What do you need exactly? What is your problem, and how could manuskript solve it?

On PDF import - YES! I for one would REALLY appreciate that.

I work with PDF files a lot, and being able to import them into a module I am developing would be awesome.

I wouldn't recommend going into PDF import, unless you want to spend next ten years just on that feature alone 😉 The thing is that PDF reference has more than 1300 pages and the format is really tricky to work with. Most of the times you aren't even able to extract text correctly from PDF document, not to mention features such as password protection etc. which make it even more complex.

In my opinion it is better to not have PDF import at all than have it, but supporting maybe 0.5% of files out there, causing frustration.

I am sorry to disagree with katafrakt. I work with PDF files a lot, and very large ones at times, and do not have trouble. If they are password protected then I don't mess with them. It's the non-password protected files I work with.

I think we are talking about two different things here. I was thinking (as was @katafrakt I guess) about importing a pdf into text that we can then edit. This would be waaay to difficult.

But I think what @darrelwright is talking about is to import it as a read only document. Like we would import an image. And manuskript could do that, using pdf.Js like it's the case now to preview pdf export.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=419nS2Q8o9E

a real situation: authors trying to migrate from one of the commercial (Final Draft, in my case), and try to convert their work into Manuskript.