[Scribus] Does Scribus support Fields...

Craig Bradney cbradney
Sun Feb 4 01:18:18 CET 2007


On Sunday 04 February 2007 01:07:03 Scott Greenberg wrote:
> All:
>
> Does Scribus support Fields like those found in OpenOffice Writer or
> Microsoft Word? i.e. Current date or DocInfo
>
> I am looking for a way to create dynamic text frames. I was thinking that
> a script could be created that searches for a predefined
> PageItemAttributes and updates the matching frame with text from an
> external file. However, I was unable to find a Scripter API method to read
> attributes. Does one exists? Do I have to use the frame name?
>
> Please provided a link to documentation explaining the usage of Doc/Page
> attributes, besides TOC.
>

There isnt currently a use for them outside of TOCs, however this, plus future 
field type values will be implemented in the coming versions.

Craig



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