hi bill, > * Similarly, can I bring names in and have them filled in like one > would in a mail merge? > > I am not aware of that feature in Scribus. Rememer, it?s a desktop > publishing program, not a word processor. You could try importing your > finished document into a word processing program, create a text box > over the space in your Scribus documents for information from your > mail merge list and try to import the information to the text box. No > guarantees that will work, but it may be worth a try.
you can have a look at: http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/scribusmailmerge http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Poor_man%27s_mail_merge even if the given scripts don't work anymore in modern versions of scribus, you may find some ideas in there, how you can implement the functionality you need in a script. depending on what you need it may be easy to do (and yes, we really need a way to apply character styles from the scripter!) ciao a.l.e
