On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 22:21 -0500, Steve Herrick wrote: > On 6/20/05, Christoph Sch?fer <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de> wrote: > > > On the DTP side, it would be extremely useful if scribus could provide a > > database interface for text frames. If a text frame could be linked to a > > database entry, many restraints on productivity would be removed in a > > single step, especially if the whole process could be done via scripting. > > If this were done, it might make sense to really push the distribution > model and make Scribus Internet-aware. Writers could submit (and > edit) their pieces via a secure website as easily as webmail or a CMS > site.
This has been discussed in depth already. It's a very intersting idea - especially if you include preflight rules in the submission server. Again, it's mostly just a matter of getting the people who have the time and skills (or are willing to gain/make them) to *do* it. http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=1925 http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=2109 http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=1791 http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=1924 > The negative side to either version is that there's no way to apply > character styles (once we have them), because the information is > stored remotely and is presumably not editable through Scribus. You're > stuck with exactly one paragraph style per frame. Maybe this is OK for > really long and consistent documents, like catalogs. http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=2108 > There could be workarounds for this if the content passed through the > text filter, but my understanding is that it would be stored as an > text entry in a database, and not as an OOo file or anything like > that. http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=1394 -- Craig Ringer
