[scribus] Bulk Image Path modification / Relative Image Paths

[Martin Kempf]

Thanks for the answers.

a.l.e. and John, I tried to change the "geeky way" with notepad++ 
(handling big files), but inside the .sla opened as text file I didn't 
find any path in clear... did I something wrong?

So I re-changed the path on the HD as before and created the "éléments 
pour la sortie", but I never manipulated those files, can I use them 
afterward to reopen the project and modify it like before?

John, I just try more logical structure in my new organization of my 
paths :-)

Martin Kempf





Le 15/08/2011 17:39, john Culleton a écrit :
> On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:49:37 +0200
> Martin Kempf<baubiologie at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I just cleaned up my HD, and changed the absolute paths of my scribus
>> files and image folders on my main working HD.
>> Now, of course, I have to change image per image the path inside my
>> nearly hundred scribus files...
>> I'm using 1.3.3.14 portable on Win7
>>
>> Is there any way to bulk change all paths inside a scribus document?
>> Or if I could just click inside of the path-text in the image manager
>> and copie-past the new path...
>>
>> And, which would make the future file manipulations much easier, is
>> there any way to put the image path in a relative way? for example
>> all images in a sub-folder, pointed like "../Images/" or somehow, and
>> I could find my images once the whole  docs folder structure placed
>> elsewhere...
>>
>> Thanks for your help,
>> Martin
>>
> On my Linux system I have a subfolder:
>
> /usr/local/active
>
> And each project has its own folder within active:
>
> /usr/local/active/grammar
>
> for a typesetting and indexing project for an academic with the last
> name of Grammar (sic).
>
> Within each project folder are all the pertinent files, including
> graphics, source and pdf. If things get too crowded I may have yet
> another subfolder for the graphics, e.g.:
>
> /usr/local/active/grammar/illos
>
>
>
> I recognize that fiddling with folder structures is more automatic to
> Linux users than it is to Windows users. But the same mechanisms exist.
>
> As for bulk changes within a Scribus .sla file this also is easy for
> me. I am used to editing plain text documents in Gvim. Again this may
> not be as common in the Windows world. Gvim has a change statement like:
>
> :% s/\\myfolder\\foo/\\myfolder\\foo\\bar/g
>
> this string translates into
>
> : do a command
> % apply it to all lines
> s substitute
> / / / the from-to string dividers
> \\myfolder = \myfolder
> \\foo = \foo
> \\bar = \bar
> g apply it to all instances in a line (i.e. globally)
>
> The g is necessary because Scribus sla files tend to run many
> statements together without intervening end-of-line characters. Now the
> above command looks very complicated to the first time user but to the
> experienced Gvim user it is automatic. I have used similar substitution
> strings literally thousands of times in the past two decades.
>
> Another popular text editor is Emacs.
>
> The default text editor Notepad that comes with Windows is very limited
> and tends to blow up on big files etc. So I suggest to all users that
> they learn a more capable editor. Vim/Gvim is free as is Emacs.
>
> John Culleton
>
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