[Scribus] Mail merge?

Pierre Marchand capparis
Mon Feb 11 15:43:44 CET 2008


Vous avez ?crit?:
> John Jason Jordan wrote:
> > I don't suppose you can merge text data into Scribus from a database
> > file, right?
> >
> > I have Scribus 1.3.3.9, but I didn't see any buttons to do so.
> > Nevertheless I thought I'd ask here just in case I missed something. I
> > desperately need to merge text data into an application that can apply
> > styles during the merge. I'd use OOo, KOffice or AbiWord, but none of
> > them can import the existing data. The data is in MS Access, although I
> > was able to import it into Kexi, so I could merge from either Kexi or
> > Access.
>
> If you can generate a simple text file, this script can be modified to
> do something along those lines:
> http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Importing_addresses_from_a_text_file
>
> Obviously, you're looking for the simplest answer, but hopefully
> something with some flexibility as well.
>

In the same range of ideas I got something usefull in adapting the script 
proposed here ( http://www.linuxgraphic.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1745 )
which takes a CSV file as input.

I put it here : http://www.fontmatrix.net/tmp/etiquettes.py



-- 
Pierre Marchand



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