[scribus-dev] [scribus] An esoteric script - text scrambling

[Craig Bradney]

That's easy enough to do. I can do that tonight.

Craig



> On 10 Jun 2014, at 8:13, Kunda Loves Scribus <scribus.user at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 11:46 PM, Kunda Loves Scribus <scribus.user at gmail.com
>> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 8:03 PM, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Kunda asked me to write a script that would scramble the text in a
>>> document for privacy reasons.
>>> 
>>> It seemed that ideally such a script should retain the structure of the
>>> original as far as styles, linespacing, and so on, and since this wasn't an
>>> exercise in sending a secret message that could be deciphered, no set
>>> conversion algorithm should be used.
>>> 
>>> So I began with the character-by-character analytical feature of
>>> en+emdash.py, but instead of just looking for hyphens, modified to look for
>>> all letters a-z and A-Z.
>>> Using the python random module, it's easy to repeatedly generate random
>>> letters of the alphabet to replace the originals.
>>> 
>>> So far I have failed to get this to work on an entire document, but am
>>> able to make it work on all the frames on a page.
>>> 
>>> http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Scrambling_Text
>>> 
>>> Greg
>> 
>> Hey Greg,
>> Thanks again for taking the time, my friend. I plan to utilize this script
>> very soon (when I get a chunk of time to dedicate to that process). I also
>> hope that this strategy can be offered and utilized by others who have bugs
>> but don't wish to submit the .sla due to any privacy/confidentiality
>> reasons.
>> 
>> Really appreciate your work, skill, and your patience.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> /Kunda
> 
> Created:
> http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/How_to_submit_bug_report_with_sensitive_data
> 
> What would be useful, IMO, is if we had the below links as part of the
> MantisBT navbar to orient the uninformed how to:
> 1.
> http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/How_to_submit_bug_report_with_sensitive_data
> 2. http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/How_to_file_a_bug_report
> 3. http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/How_to_debug_for_reporting
> 
> Cheers,
> /Kunda
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