[scribus-dev] Fwd: Re: Scribus implementation

[Saravanan Kuppusamy]

Hi,

I hope the forum found the email I sent (fount below). I am very grateful
if you could advise me on that please.


On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Saravanan Kuppusamy <sarankup at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear ciao,
>
> Many thanks for your detailed responses. We understand that the Scripter
> via Python. As I mentioned initially, we uses XML for typesetting in
> InDesign application. InDesign helps in in preserving XML as below. For
> example,
>
> [1] XML from our client will be like the below:
>
> <author><firstname>Saravanan</firstname><lastname>Kuppusamy</lastname></author>
>
> [2] Through XSLT, we generate XML as below (This XML will be imported into
> InDesign template):
> <author><firstname>Saravanan</firstname><x>, </x>
> <lastname>Kuppusamy</lastname></author>
>
> [3] Inside of InDesign, our operator will make some corrections like
> changing the content as below (We should update the content inside of
> InDesign, and no-excuse in our business):
> <author><firstname>Saran</firstname><x>,
> </x><lastname>Kuppusamy</lastname></author>
>
> [4] After PDF is done from InDesign, we export the XML from InDesign for
> other online products like EPUB, HTML, etc.,
> <author><firstname>Saran</firstname><lastname>Kuppusamy</lastname></author>
>
> The biggest advantage of InDesign here is, InDesign preserves XML as is.
> The [1] and [2] process is managed outside of InDesign, but not [3] and
> [4]. Does Scribus supports [3] an [4] process? This question is really the
> deciding factor for me.
>
> If you could educate me on this, would be more grateful. Thanks in advance.
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 6:45 PM, a.l.e <ale.comp_06 at xox.ch> wrote:
>
>> hi,
>>
>>> If anyone replies to this, please CC to Saravanan. I don't know how to
>>> answer his questions.
>>>
>>>
>> since saravanan posted his question to this list, i must think that he is
>> reading the answers... but let's put him / her in CC: to make sure that the
>> answer gets through.
>>
>> the easiest way to do automation inside of scribus is to use the
>> scripter, which uses python. this means that you have access to all
>> python's library to manage your xml and create your scribus documents.
>>
>> there are some commands missing in the scribus "API"m but you seem to be
>> ready to put your hands in the engine to extend it... and this should not
>> be that hard, either!
>>
>> finally, you can also create plugins by using c++. as cédric wrote,
>> scribus is already using much XML internally, so you should not have a hard
>> time figuring out how to create your own importers and exporters.
>>
>> just ask if you need more hints and help!
>>
>> ciao
>> a.l.e
>>
>
>
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