[Scribus] How to make ``photo book'' easily? + some "bug-reports"

[Jim Baker]

John,
	This is off the subject, but you seem totally current in the world of 
digi-tech, so I have a question about computerized telephony. Are we 
there yet as a dependable alternative to landline?
	Jim B.

On Mar 14, 2008, at 5:46 PM, John Beardmore wrote:

> Michal Blazejczyk wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Frankly, I think this is a perfect situation to use scripting
>> in Scribus.  It would be fairly easy to write a simple script
>> that would go through all image files in a directory, and place
>> them on one page each in a Scribus document.
>> Then if you needed to relocate the images or something, you
>> could whip up another even shorter script.
>>
>> But that's just the programmer in me talking...  :)
>
> This sort of thing isn't an uncommon requirement.
>
> Back in the days when I wrote market research software for money, we
> wrote portable ANSI C code to generate .WMF files, then used a VBA
> script to open powerpoint and get it to put one on each page.
>
> It was all a bit messy in a microsoft sort of way, but came in pretty
> handy for all sorts of things.
>
>
> Cheers, J/.
> -- 
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