[scribus] import from textfile

Gregory Pittman gpittman at iglou.com
Wed Jul 23 17:08:33 CEST 2008


Chantal Rosmuller wrote:
> Hi list, I need some advice.
>
> I want to import text that is currently in a text file.  But I do not want to 
> import all if it in one text frame. Every paragraph should have it's own text 
> frame. How can I do that? Should I for example write a script to put the text 
> file in mysql format first? Or maybe html? I know a thing or two about 
> scripting and databases but not a lot about scribus. I am not sure how to get 
> started, If someone can point me in the right direction that would be great. 
>   
You're wanted to do something very customized. The question is, whether 
writing a script, editing your text file, for some automated process is 
worthwhile.
Is there a certain layout?
Is there a reason you can't just divide your text file into a number of 
text files, one for each frame?

Greg




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