[scribus-dev] sla reading and pdf exporting as libraries

[Craig Bradney]

On 08/04/2011, at 13:37, "a.l.e" <ale.comp_06 at xox.ch> wrote:

> hi devs,
> 
> quite often, we get requests from people wanting to get scribus to work from the command line.
> 
> the answer is always: it's a hard thing to do, we keep an eye on it, but it's not doable, yet.
> 
> 
> personally, i'm wondering if it would be possible to start a project implementing two aspects of it:
> 
> - creating a library for reading the SLA files  into a memory structure
> 
> - creating a library for exporting to PDF from a memory structure
> 
> those two libraries would be "indipendent" and used by both Scribus and a new Scribus-CLI.
> 
> do you think that such a project would be manageable?
> 
> how much time do you estimate it would take for somebody to implement it? days? weeks? months?
> 
> 
> personally, i think that going through this first step would give a code base on which people wanting specific features could start submitting patches.
> i feel that the current effort to create small programs which manipulate SLA files or produce PDF from SLAs are a bit a waste of resources and would like to check if there is another way to go...
> 
> ciao
> a.l.e
> 
> * "indipendent" is meant as not dependent from the rest of the scribus code (except the plugins for reading different versions of SLAs); the Qt-dependency is not a problem, at least not for a first try.
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We already have a library to read an sla into memory, it is what scribus uses - /plugins/fileloader/scribusXXXformat/ or thereabouts (not near the code now).

The approach might have merit though, worth considering.

Craig