[Scribus] Success story and question.

[Craig Bradney]

> ----- Original Message -----
> Subject: Re: [Scribus] Success story and question.
> From: Eilert <eilert-sprachen at t-online.de>
> To: scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de
> Date: 08-02-2007 13:26
> 
> 
> Craig Bradney schrieb:
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> Subject: Re: [Scribus] Success story and question.
> >> From: Eilert <eilert-sprachen at t-online.de>
> >> To: scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de
> >> Date: 08-02-2007 11:48
> >>
> >>
> >> Jan Schrewe schrieb:
> >>> Kite Lau schrieb am Donnerstag, 8. Februar 2007:
> >>>> ? 2007-02-07?? 19:14 +0100?Jan Schrewe???
> >>>>
> >>>>> Yes, the details are exactly what  I am looking for. The Problem is
> >>>>> that the
> >>>>> position of the textframes is absolute. So in order to generate the
> >>>>> "master
> >>>>> file" with 500 pages I need to know how calculate the position and I
> >>>>> didn't
> >>>>> find anything in the documentation of the sla file.
> >>>> You make this master file within Scribus. Why you need to know the
> >>>> position?
> >>> Yes, you are right. I just found out that it is possible to copy a
page 
> >>> n-times.
> >>>
> >>> Thank you all.
> >>>
> >>> Jan
> >>
> >> Hi Jan,
> >>
> >> maybe this helps you:
> >>
> >> I experimented a bit with an empty document of 1 page and 1 text frame,

> >> saved it, looked at it, then added 1 page, 1 text frame, another text 
> >> frame, and I found it's relatively easy to change contents etc.
> >>
> >> In the file, you will find <PAGE ... NUM="0" ...> for the first page, 
> >> NUM="1" for the second and so on. They all stand below each other. It 
> >> was easy to copy them and add a number to get more pages.
> >>
> >> Then there are page objects <PAGEOBJECT ...> several lines until 
> >> </PAGEOBJECT>
> >>
> >> In my case, there were <ITEXT ... CH="This is the text" ... >
containing 
> >> the text of the text frame. They are within each page object
definition.
> >>
> >> In the <PAGEOBJECT-definition there is one item, rather at the end of 
> >> it, called e. g. OwnPage="1" for the second page. But when I altered
it, 
> >> the object didn't appear on another page, I don't know why. This would 
> >> be necessary to add more page objects with text frames for each page.
In 
> >> my case, Scribus wouldn't accept alterations here and just leave the 
> >> frame at its place or (in case of a newly added page object) show it at

> >> the last page before more pages were added manually.
> >>
> >> But it seems to be possible, though. I guess such an approach will be 
> >> easier to handle than having Scribus produce additional copies of the 
> >> first page, then saving, closing, adding the texts from the database, 
> >> then reloading and making pdf of it.
> >>
> > 
> > FWIW, this frame creation process isn't necessary in 1.3.4cvs. 
> > New doc, set page count to 500.
> > Insert->Frame 
> > - Set type to text
> > - Set position and size
> > - Set it to put a frame on all pages
> > - Click ok.
> > 
> > Regards
> > Craig
> > 
> 
> That's really good, Craig. But it still makes it necessary to have 
> Scribus make up my document and save it before the database thing can 
> care about inserting addresses, doesn't it?
> 
> My approach would enable the database thing to create a 500 page 
> document from a single page one and to insert all addresses at one go. 
> You would need Scribus for pdf output only.
> 
> Or did I get you wrong here?

Sure, but that is also what the python plugin is perfectly able to do..
create a doc, create pages, create frames, get data from a database and put
it in a frame.

Craig