If I could find a decent open source wysiwig editor for that format (or if OpenOffice Writer exported it properly) we'd be using it right now.
On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 19:44 +0200, Jan Schrewe wrote: > Jon schrieb am Freitag, 10. Oktober 2008: > > > Is it > > > so much bother to open Scribus to print a file? > > > > Yes, because that requires a human being. > > > > I need to be able to print (or export to PDF or ghostscript) SLAs with > > no human intervention. After creating letter or form templates and > > having our database merge arbitrary account information selected at > > arbitrary times by any of our users for an arbitrary number of > > templates, I need to be able to print them with no human intervention. > > We are already doing this with a deprecated proprietary word processor > > (wordperfect 10) which is the last mission critical application forcing > > us to depend on a proprietary deprecated "operating system". > > > > Even if Scribus could automatically open and run Scribus Python scripts > > from a shell (scribus --run-script <script.py), while ugly as pages > > would get printed client-side as opposed to server-side, that would > > immediately make Scribus exponentially more valuable as it's the perfect > > authoring tool for letters and forms. > > > Sounds like a job for latex to me. > > Jan > > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20081010/7d067b8f/attachment.htm>
