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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">hi berteh,<br>
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Is there any plan to improve command-line (/headless) mode of
scribus?<br>
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no, no plan but -- at least from my side -- a strong interest in
getting it to work (better)!<br>
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what really helps, are small incremental patches that improve the
current state or open the way for further improvements.<br>
big changesets that scramble the whole thing are harder to merge...<br>
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as you say, currently scribus headless is rather slow...<br>
as far as i know, the reason is -- partially or mostly -- related to
the fact that part of the scribus logic depends on the GUI being
fully initialized.<br>
finding those parts and proposing patches that reduce the number of
those dependencies will help to get scribus to run much faster in
headless mode (by having to initialize less things) and possibly
also in the gui...<br>
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another way of improving the current situtation would be to allow
scribus to run as a server/service accepting requests and running
the matching actions (so that you don't have to launch scribus each
time you want to perform an action).<br>
both are interesting approaches that can coexist.<br>
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in the last year the have been several such patches proposed by
contributors and those have made it possible to run scribus
headless! that's a new thing for scribus.<br>
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the only thing that is very unlikely to happen is being able to
install and run scribus without a properly configured (virtual)
GUI/X11 environment.<br>
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is the the year of scribus on the server? :-)<br>
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ciao<br>
a.l.e<br>
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