[scribus] recipe book - like document Q's

dl dl.lists at ntlworld.com
Tue Feb 2 22:04:18 UTC 2021


> On 18/01/2021 20:09, dboland9 wrote:
>> I think you may be wrong.  After a lot of Googling, I see there is a mail merge script for Scribus that may work.  I need to do more
>> work on this though.  The problem (perhaps) is that it uses a cvs file.  My db won't export a csv file directly.
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> I only spotted this post by chance, buried in my email box.
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> This line of research I have followed for some time.
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> In ScribusGenerator I parked my ideas in post #7 in this thread:-
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> https://github.com/berteh/ScribusGenerator/issues/167
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> As I wrote above, ScribusGenerator script can be evolved to draw down 
> (PHP include) assets into SLA elements from a CRUD (PHP + DB) rather 
> than csv.  But understand that with this approach the csv holds links 
> to DB and PHP snippets /in a second level of abstraction/.
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> carto.net was the inspiration (I read it quite some years ago).
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> But a heck of a lot of studying/hacking is required, hacking mime 
> types and the like. I have tried to document the workflow I use in 
> Ubuntu. The configuration can be scripted.
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