[Scribus] Scribus Digest, Vol 40, Issue 32

[Craig Bradney]

On Tuesday 20 June 2006 17:47, Grant Bloedow wrote:
> On Jun 20, 2006, at 5:36 AM, scribus-request at nashi.altmuehlnet.de wrote:
> > Message: 6
> > Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 01:59:09 +0100
> > From: Dave <dave at lab6.com>
> > Subject: [Scribus] Design Processed: Blue Sky Scribus Ideas
> > To: scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de
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> > 	<2285a9d20606191759x6b819d81r43e8fdec38814bca at mail.gmail.com>
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> > Hi All,
> >
> > As part of my Interaction Design degree at Ravensbourne College,
> > London, I've prepared http://www.designprocessed.com - an essay on
> > some 'blue sky' or 'what if...' ideas centered around Scribus.
> >
> > While of course not real features to put into the bugtracker, I would
> > very much appreciate comments from anyone and everyone :-)
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Dave
>
> Dave,
>
> Great thinking. Your discussion is more on the design side of things
> (which is in itself an interesting topic), but the concept of
> scripting the creation of a file is really interesting.
>
> I have looked at the file structures myself and thought about how I
> might auto-generate documents with the knowledge of the basic file
> structures. In my case, I would be building templates for blank
> sheets of media labels. If I were to write a basic python script that
> could take the placement/shape and size attributes of a label and
> auto-generate a template file, I could use my product measurements
> (in a data file) to create the files for me! The code may be useful
> in the future as a 'super step and repeat' function or something
> similar.
>
> While I'm still far off from extending scribus in this way, I will be
> glad to submit these back to the development for inclusion or use in
> any way when I have some working code. Thanks again to the
> development team.

Watch out for the future changes. Scribus 1.3.4 is going to start to move 
towards the long awaited changes, however slowly.

Craig
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