Frank Cox wrote: > I'm trying to figure out the easiest way to get numbers on tickets and it > looks > to me like the closest Scribus comes to this is automatic page numbering, > which > doesn't get me where I'm going. > > We're creating tickets for the Creek FM "50,000 Watts of Pow Wow Power!" Rez > Rock concert (how's that for a title) and would like to be able to set up a > sheet with a dozen or so tickets on it, then sequentially serial number each > ticket in two places. Nicer yet would be an ability to put sequential > seat/row/section numbers on each ticket as well. (Seat 1, Row 1, Section 1 > through Seat 150, Row 12, Section 4, or whatever -- I'm sure you see what I > mean.) > > My initial idea is to use Scribus to create a plate to print the tickets, run > that through the press and print the required number of sheets, then put each > sheet through the printer and number them using a custom program that I > haven't > yet written. > > The better (less labour-intensive) approach would be to do the whole thing > with > Scribus and print the tickets and the numbers in one shot on the printer, > since > we've got to push everything through the printer anyway to get the numbering > done. > Maybe not exactly brilliant, but the "pure Scribus" way here would involve a script, and this would be a simple script to write. It might follow either of your plans, creating a base on which to superimpose numbers, or doing the whole thing all in one go...
Greg
