Am 05.10.2010 04:21, schrieb Owen: > On Mon, 04 Oct 2010 17:51:45 +0200 > Rolf-Werner Eilert<eilert-sprachen at t-online.de> wrote: > >> Does anyone here remember the (Dutch?) art student project with >> catalogues that had different covers for each of the x-hundred copies? >> >> How did they do that eventually? Was there a script from within >> Scribus? And did they publish it somewhere? I had a similar idea (of >> a much lower scope), and their code might help me understand how they >> managed this. > > > > Hi Rolf, > > I do not think that there is any magic to this. > > Depending on what you want to do, it is just a python looping exercise. > > for i in range(1, n ): > open a new document > place personalised text/do whatever > save document
Ok, Owen, thanks for that hint. After all, it is a good point to start at. > > These may also give you pointers; > http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Importing_addresses_from_a_text_file > http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Poor_man's_mail_merge Very nice, that should help. > > > Do you have more of a specification? > Not yet, it is still a rather vague idea. If it gets more concrete, I'll be back... ;-) Rolf
