Hello List members, We have just completed a few more PDF documents with Scribus. These particular documents are of particular importance because they are documents with legal ramifications that are used daily. In the past, these documents were produced and maintained using expensive proprietary software. Under the old software, they were hard to upgrade/change - a real PITA that had to be dealt with often.
FWIW, the new PDF's look better and are more maintainable/upgradeable/changeable than what is possible using the old proprietary product. The amount of control that is possbile coupled with the ease of use of Scribus (Once your over the learning curve...) is incredible. Scribus rules! Now, the features we use a lot include Get Text for importing text and pretty much all of the PDF options and features including javascript. The template stuff is great too. We are beginning to look at python scripting to automate construction and modifications of documents, but we are not certain how far we can feasibly/realistically take this powerful feature. In fact, python scripting is the purpose of this post. I've read all of the info on the WIKI regarding python scripting. It's good info, but rather sparse. Question: Are all of the features of python available for use when scripting in Scribus? If not, what features of the python language are excluded? Are there features within Scribus that cannot be accessed using python? Are there any "Gotcha's" or other surprises? Is there information/documentation regarding this subject that I have missed? It's obvious that python and Scribus play well together, but I don't know what the limits are (Although, I'm sure they exist). Best regards Marvin Dickens Alpharetta, Georgia USA
