Craig Bradney wrote: >On Saturday 04 March 2006 22:13, Tim Howe wrote: > > >>Hi all. >> >> I am fairly new to scribus and am extremely impressed. I've been using >> it >>for a couple weeks now to create various forms and documents for my office. >> >> I am hoping there is a way to batch convert a bunch of scribus files to >>postscript files. Or maybe a stand-alone program that does this like >>atops. I would like to be able to create scribus templates using Ruby ERB >>files and batch process my company's monthly bill run. Thsi would allow >>one to do mass mailings, bill runs where the data is filled in from a >>database, etc... The possibilities are limitless. Currently I can find no >>other format that will allow me to easily create templates with page layout >>capabilities and then convert them to postscript on the command line. This >>would basically be the holy grail for me and, I'm sure, open up a lot of >>possibilities for everyone. The scribus XML format is the only thing I can >>find that would allow me to do this without a lot of headaches. >> >> So, can someone point me to a way to do this? If there isn't a way, >> what >>is the best way to make a formal feature request? I'm quite certain this >>capability would be a "killer feature" so to speak. >> >> > >Not possible, not yet, we know about it :) For other requests, please visit >bugs.scribus.net. > > Directly calling Scribus from the command line is not possible yet, no. However, templating with Scribus XML is entirely possible and, from there, any of the assorted meatballs-to-spaghetti converters will work with the right arguments.
I do not envy you, here. Have fun playing with converters and shell scripts.
