Thanks for the answers. a.l.e. and John, I tried to change the "geeky way" with notepad++ (handling big files), but inside the .sla opened as text file I didn't find any path in clear... did I something wrong?
So I re-changed the path on the HD as before and created the "?l?ments pour la sortie", but I never manipulated those files, can I use them afterward to reopen the project and modify it like before? John, I just try more logical structure in my new organization of my paths :-) Martin Kempf Le 15/08/2011 17:39, john Culleton a ?crit : > On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:49:37 +0200 > Martin Kempf<baubiologie at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I just cleaned up my HD, and changed the absolute paths of my scribus >> files and image folders on my main working HD. >> Now, of course, I have to change image per image the path inside my >> nearly hundred scribus files... >> I'm using 1.3.3.14 portable on Win7 >> >> Is there any way to bulk change all paths inside a scribus document? >> Or if I could just click inside of the path-text in the image manager >> and copie-past the new path... >> >> And, which would make the future file manipulations much easier, is >> there any way to put the image path in a relative way? for example >> all images in a sub-folder, pointed like "../Images/" or somehow, and >> I could find my images once the whole docs folder structure placed >> elsewhere... >> >> Thanks for your help, >> Martin >> > On my Linux system I have a subfolder: > > /usr/local/active > > And each project has its own folder within active: > > /usr/local/active/grammar > > for a typesetting and indexing project for an academic with the last > name of Grammar (sic). > > Within each project folder are all the pertinent files, including > graphics, source and pdf. If things get too crowded I may have yet > another subfolder for the graphics, e.g.: > > /usr/local/active/grammar/illos > > > > I recognize that fiddling with folder structures is more automatic to > Linux users than it is to Windows users. But the same mechanisms exist. > > As for bulk changes within a Scribus .sla file this also is easy for > me. I am used to editing plain text documents in Gvim. Again this may > not be as common in the Windows world. Gvim has a change statement like: > > :% s/\\myfolder\\foo/\\myfolder\\foo\\bar/g > > this string translates into > > : do a command > % apply it to all lines > s substitute > / / / the from-to string dividers > \\myfolder = \myfolder > \\foo = \foo > \\bar = \bar > g apply it to all instances in a line (i.e. globally) > > The g is necessary because Scribus sla files tend to run many > statements together without intervening end-of-line characters. Now the > above command looks very complicated to the first time user but to the > experienced Gvim user it is automatic. I have used similar substitution > strings literally thousands of times in the past two decades. > > Another popular text editor is Emacs. > > The default text editor Notepad that comes with Windows is very limited > and tends to blow up on big files etc. So I suggest to all users that > they learn a more capable editor. Vim/Gvim is free as is Emacs. > > John Culleton > > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20110817/8697a7fc/attachment.html>
