[Scribus] variables

[Ronald Vermeire]

On Wednesday 04 February 2004 09:55, Ronald Vermeire wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 February 2004 20:00, Petr Van?k wrote:
> > On Tuesday 03 of February 2004 16:19, Ronald Vermeire wrote:
> > ...
> >
> > > somthing like <name>John Doe</name> in Scribus. An other question is
> > > can i use mySql datasource with these varibles in Scribus. Maybe
> > > Through scripting or should i write a plug-in for this ? (are there any
> > > examples about querying a database).
> >
> > welcome Ronald.
> > can you explain how do you expect to use scribus with relational
> > database?
>

Hello Petr and list,

We currently have an application to create businesscards. In this
application we create variables, styles etc. and put them in mySQL. This
application also has a 'template-designer'. With this template-designer you
can, in a non visual environment, create the business cards by inserting
the variables and styles and typing in the coordinates, this results in an
xml file. Then our customers can type in the variables through a
web-interface. The xml file is translated into Latex and the customer can
see a preview PDF of his businesscard.

I would like to use Scribus as template designer so the variables created
in mySQL have to be inserted in Scribus.(maybe also insert the styles,
these should then be translated into Scribus styles) . Then i would like to
use scribus as a server-side application to create the preview PDF when our
customers have filled in their variables.

I hope i have made myself clear and that you see a possibility to do such
things in Scribus.

Thanks,

Ronald.