2011/3/30 Gregory Pittman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gregp_ky@yahoo.com">gregp_ky@yahoo.com</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 03/30/2011 12:33 AM, srikrishnan wrote:<br>
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Hi All,<br>
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Is it possible to use perl script in Scribus?<br>
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What we've seen so far are perl scripts that work outside of Scribus, such as the one to shrink the size of a PDF made with Scribus.<br>
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My first iteration of making a Scribus document from a directory of images was written in Perl, and simply generated an SLA file that Scribus could use. It was clumsy, but it worked. Of course, every time there was an update to the file format, it might require some changes, although of course Scribus is always backward-compatible with older file formats.<br>
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I have to say, I still like the way that Perl can manipulate data and strings better than Python.<br></blockquote><div><br>Hi,<br><br>From last LGM I recall this presentation:<br><br>Markus Holland-Moritz also discussed book production in his talk, which
outlined the self-publishing of his photographic book about traveling
through New Zealand. Holland-Moritz's book is primarily images; in the
process of developing it he used Perl to custom-process several repetitive
tasks and produced useful patches to Scribus that have since been
integrated in the project's trunk. One is an image cache, which reduced
the sixteen-minute wait he initially experienced when opening the
2.6-gigabyte Scribus file down to 20 seconds. The other is per-image
compression settings; previously Scribus allowed document creators to
select a lossy or lossless image compression when producing PDF output, but
Holland-Moritz needed to specify different settings for his photography and
graphical images. The process also led him to develop a custom text markup
language based on TeX and an accompanying Scribus import filter. (Contributed by Nate Willis)<br><br>Source: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/390572/">http://lwn.net/Articles/390572/</a> <br><br>Louis<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Greg</blockquote></div><br>