[Scribus] varia

Gregory Pittman gpittman
Thu Mar 2 22:44:08 CET 2006


Louis Desjardins wrote:
> This gives me the opportunity to say again how it would be useful to 
> have a Super Search & Replace into Scribus. For such tasks where you 
> need to do 10 Searches / Replacements in a row, looking after 
> 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-0 in such font and changing it to another... Why do 10 
> Searches? Why not do only one, with all the occurrences? Wouldn't that 
> be something?! *No other DTP app has this capability* (afaik)
>
>   
I'd like to see if I can come up with some search scripts for this kind 
of thing and others like it.
One can certainly create a list of items on a page, get the text, delete 
the text and insert new text. Even just a grep-like function might be nice.

Alternatively, a script to automatically insert page numbering frames 
when something unusual is desired might also be a useful approach.

A third approach might be to write a program in Perl, Python, whatever, 
to do surgery on a Scribus file, maybe creating a backup of the original 
for safety's sake.

Greg



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