Hi, Calum Polwart schrieb am Mittwoch, 7. Februar 2007: > Given that scribus is XMl is it not perhaps possible to fudge it like > this: > > Create the "Master Document", with some place holders in the text = > something that will be unique = I am thinking along the lines of a > seperate text box for *Name* *Address* Etc. Perhaps using *Name* as the > place holder (would need to check that * isn't wildcard later!) > > Use some scripting to duplicate that master document 500 times within > its self - not sure exactly the detail of how that would be done - but > I'm sure someone here knows.
Yes, the details are exactly what I am looking for. The Problem is that the position of the textframes is absolute. So in order to generate the "master file" with 500 pages I need to know how calculate the position and I didn't find anything in the documentation of the sla file. Cheers, Jan > Then write some script in something like perl that would do this, in > pseudoscript: (I don't do perl etc sorry!) > > Open scribus sla file as a text document > Open the database > for n = 1 to 500 > Read record 1 from the database > Search from start for *placeholder1* > Replace *placeholder1* with record from database relating to palceholder > Search for *placeholder2* > Replace *placeholder2* > Next n > Save sla file as sla file (new name?) > > Then you open the sla and convert to PDF? > > Just a thought? > > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus
