[scribus-dev] Label Templates

[Louis Desjardins]

2008/8/2 "Christoph Schäfer" <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de>

> Hi I already sent this email to the dev list some time ago, but looking at
> the archive, it doesn't seem to have arrived.
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> I finally found a way to easily (more or less) create business card and
> label templates via OO.o. It's still a lot of manual work, but I think I
> could produce a complete set (Avery A4, Avery A4 Asia, Avery Letter Size,
> Avery Zweckform, Herlitz, Herma A4, Herma A5, Herma endlos, Leitz and Sigel)
> with, I suppose, more than 200 templates. I could also create the XML file
> for the template browser. Upside: lots of feature requests less. Downside: ~
> 10 MB extra size (uncompressed) for the Scribus package. If we could find a
> way to install them easily after the basic Scribus install, that could be an
> alternative.


Note that it would only work for 1.3.5+.
>

> What do you think?


Wouldn't make templates available on the website for download be a simpler
way?

   - They could be available on the wiki.
   - We could post a set of instructions on how to make them the best
   possible way.
   - This would be up to the users to produce more and more of those
   templates without interfering with the devels.
   - Outside the "structure" of the templates concept, that is: in which
   directory they must be in order to be loaded easily (I can't think of
   anything else, sorry) the template issue, imho, belongs to the users and not
   the programmers. And I don't think that unless a very few that would give a
   hint there exist lots elsewhere, I would not ship that extra 10 MB... The
   reason is simple: we'll never see the end of this because there are simply
   no limits to templates.

Louis

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