On Wednesday 31 March 2010 11:14:21 FredAt wrote: > Submitted on 03/31/2010 > Submitted by anonymous user: [10.1.6.26] > > Submitted values are: > > Your contact information: > Name: FredAt > Email Address: etkit1 at gmail.com > About your Scribus program: > Version: 1.3.3.13 > Prebuilt/Compiled: Prebuilt > Build Date: > Your operating system and CPU: > Type: Windows > Version: 2000/XP > CPU type: 32bit Intel/AMD (i386) > Your request content: > Subject: Automating Scribus > Message: > Hello All, > > I currently create documents in Word 2003 which are saved in XML > (WordML) format. The documents typically have 4 pages and contain > multiple sections with variable numbers of columns, figures and tables. > I upload the XML to my server where it is converted into a simpler XML > format which I then use to generate customized PDF documents using mPDF. > > The weak link in all of this is Word - it is a mere document processor > and the process of creating precise document layouts, placing figures > correctly etc is well nigh impossible. Enter Scribus. I have looked at > what it can do and also checked out the Scribus XML format. I should be > able to convert the Scribus XML to my native, GSNML, format and then > feed that to mPDF and things will work just fine. > > However, I am wondering if there is an alternative along these lines > > a, Take the SLA file. > b. Replace the text and figures taht I need to customize. > c. Finally use sla2pdf to convert the SLA to a PDF. > > If this is doable I can handle all of the programming. However, I would > appreciate some pointers on where to look etc. Naively changing text, > images in the SLA does not work - it ends up in Scribus reporting a bad > format. > > I'd much appreciate any help. > > p.s. - I need to do all of the above on my webserver which runs Apache > under CentOS. > > > The results of this submission may be viewed at: > http://www.scribus.net/?q=node/158/submission/378 > > > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus
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