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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: berteh@hotmail.com<br>To: scribus-dev@lists.scribus.net<br>Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 22:48:54 +0200<br>Subject: [scribus-dev] scribus from command line<br><br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hello.<br><br>First of all thanks to all contributors to Scribus: you created a great piece of software.<br><br>I'd like to ease the integration of Scribus in automated workflows, and would therefore like to get better command line support... i.e. to export sla to pdf in a headless setting, and concatenating a few sla files with similar page layout.<br><br>I currently use the <a href="https://github.com/berteh/ScribusGenerator/" target="_blank">script interface</a> to do these actions, but it's <a href="https://github.com/berteh/ScribusGenerator/issues/2#issuecomment-125380857" target="_blank">quite slow</a> when the number of files increases. Is there any plan to improve command-line (/headless) mode of scribus?<br><br>thanks,<br>Berteh.<br><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div><div>Scribus 1.5 has -g and -py options to run a script and exit with no user interaction. It still flashes on the screen, but it does not need user interaction, and it doesn't paint much to the screen if you run <span style="font-size: 12pt;">setRedraw(False)</span></div></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Regards, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">William Bader, </span>Director of Research and Development at SCS, http://www.newspapersystems.com</div> </div></body>
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