Hello<br><br>Yes i know this script and already tried to use, but as far as i remember there are several issues with it :<br>- i creates single page files, which makes it unusable for catalog or such documents a document difficult especially when a master pate or style update is needed (i mean unless we have a 'book' system)<br>
- i generates PDF by itself and there are lacks in PDF API, such as vectorizing fonts. I've had trouble with this in the past<br>- it doesn't really use Scribus for replacement and except having the PDF export, it doesn't reall use scribus API<br>
- we can't say how content would behave if it's length changes (several / page or not...)<br>- we should make possible to use several sources, not only CSV<br><br>I've already tested other approach that worked but we still miss car style apply in the API which would help a lot for this.<br>
<br>I think this plugin is interesting but is worth a real job on it. May scripter2 could help in the future. We have too many scripts that still can't work event with scripter1. We need a better workflow to keep them up2date otherwise we show we are unable to be consistent and that the community is not so active. <br>
May be do like inkscape : add the best scripts in the release to make them more visible, give functionnalities to users, and eventually keep an eye on it ?<br>That way we could have a running test script that would check for problems as soon that some changes is done in the API or a related function.<br>
<br>pygmee<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/2/25 "Christoph Schäfer" <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:christoph-schaefer@gmx.de" target="_blank">christoph-schaefer@gmx.de</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi all,<br>
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As some of you know, there exists a Python script called Scribus Generator that provides some kind of "Mail Merge" feature to Scribus: <a href="http://www.ekkehardwill.de/sg/" target="_blank">http://www.ekkehardwill.de/sg/</a><br>
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Maybe some of our Python gurus could have a look at it and fix potential issues, so it can be included in 1.4.3. The licence is compatible with ours (MIT), and the author provides a documentation file. It would be easy to write a new doc page based on the PDF.<br>
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That way we'd have something new to offer for 1.4.3, aside from the Haiku port.<br>
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Christoph<br>
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