Christian Pernot wrote: > Craig Ringer a ?crit : >> Christian Pernot wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I was wondering if it would be possible to program a php extension for >>> controlling scribus, using the Scribus API, as the command line doesn't >>> exist at the moment. >>> >> Scribus won't make a very good server process though. It's strictly >> single threaded, slow to start up, the internal API isn't much fun to >> work with, and existing remote control/scripting facilities are limited. >> >> >> So ... what are you actually trying to *do* by controlling Scribus from >> PHP? >> >> > I need a powerfull, stable, serverside PDF engine (must do hyphenations). > But as you say, for the moment, scribus is single-threaded, which is > annoying for me. > > I'm having a look at LaTeX for now, and someone told me about iText. > If you have other ideas...
ConTeXt is a great dialect clearly geared towards pdf and poised to become unicode aware and scriptable after pdftex is replaced with luatex. http://wiki.contextgarden.net is a place to start. Joh
