Can anyone suggest a solution to the following scenario please?
I have a newsletter where the text for all of the articles is in text frames in the same layer (e.g. "articles"). Some text exists in other layers but, for this scenario, they're pretty much irrelevant (i.e. they're used for page decoration etc.).
How can I export (or otherwise extract) all of the text from that one layer ("articles") to a text file, at the same time, while ignoring all the text in the other layers?
The purpose of doing this is to make it easier, once the newsletter is at the point of being published, to extract the relevant text for use in an email (for people who don't want to receive the full PDF but still want the info, for example: they don't have a computer but can get emails through their phone).
I've looked at the File->Export… function but it seems to only be able to export text from the currently selected text frame. I also tried using "Select All" (within my "articles" layer) and then using the Export… function but it just exports the text from one frame as before. I've also had a look around the menus and couldn't find anything else that seems to be relevant.
(I found this page in the wiki:
http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Extracting_All_Text_from_a_Document but it does the whole document, not just one layer, and I can't program in Python to change it - and there seems to be an issue about variable size too.)
The newsletter isn't very big so it's not a huge job to do this manually, I just wondered if anyone already had a working solution.