On Tuesday 20 June 2006 17:47, Grant Bloedow wrote: > On Jun 20, 2006, at 5:36 AM, scribus-request at nashi.altmuehlnet.de wrote: > > Message: 6 > > Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 01:59:09 +0100 > > From: Dave <dave at lab6.com> > > Subject: [Scribus] Design Processed: Blue Sky Scribus Ideas > > To: scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > > Message-ID: > > <2285a9d20606191759x6b819d81r43e8fdec38814bca at mail.gmail.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > > > Hi All, > > > > As part of my Interaction Design degree at Ravensbourne College, > > London, I've prepared http://www.designprocessed.com - an essay on > > some 'blue sky' or 'what if...' ideas centered around Scribus. > > > > While of course not real features to put into the bugtracker, I would > > very much appreciate comments from anyone and everyone :-) > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Dave > > Dave, > > Great thinking. Your discussion is more on the design side of things > (which is in itself an interesting topic), but the concept of > scripting the creation of a file is really interesting. > > I have looked at the file structures myself and thought about how I > might auto-generate documents with the knowledge of the basic file > structures. In my case, I would be building templates for blank > sheets of media labels. If I were to write a basic python script that > could take the placement/shape and size attributes of a label and > auto-generate a template file, I could use my product measurements > (in a data file) to create the files for me! The code may be useful > in the future as a 'super step and repeat' function or something > similar. > > While I'm still far off from extending scribus in this way, I will be > glad to submit these back to the development for inclusion or use in > any way when I have some working code. Thanks again to the > development team.
Watch out for the future changes. Scribus 1.3.4 is going to start to move towards the long awaited changes, however slowly. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20060620/81c74e22/attachment.pgp
