2011/3/30 Gregory Pittman <gregp_ky at yahoo.com> > On 03/30/2011 12:33 AM, srikrishnan wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> Is it possible to use perl script in Scribus? >> > > What we've seen so far are perl scripts that work outside of Scribus, such > as the one to shrink the size of a PDF made with Scribus. > > My first iteration of making a Scribus document from a directory of images > was written in Perl, and simply generated an SLA file that Scribus could > use. It was clumsy, but it worked. Of course, every time there was an update > to the file format, it might require some changes, although of course > Scribus is always backward-compatible with older file formats. > > I have to say, I still like the way that Perl can manipulate data and > strings better than Python. >
Hi, >From last LGM I recall this presentation: Markus Holland-Moritz also discussed book production in his talk, which outlined the self-publishing of his photographic book about traveling through New Zealand. Holland-Moritz's book is primarily images; in the process of developing it he used Perl to custom-process several repetitive tasks and produced useful patches to Scribus that have since been integrated in the project's trunk. One is an image cache, which reduced the sixteen-minute wait he initially experienced when opening the 2.6-gigabyte Scribus file down to 20 seconds. The other is per-image compression settings; previously Scribus allowed document creators to select a lossy or lossless image compression when producing PDF output, but Holland-Moritz needed to specify different settings for his photography and graphical images. The process also led him to develop a custom text markup language based on TeX and an accompanying Scribus import filter. (Contributed by Nate Willis) Source: http://lwn.net/Articles/390572/ Louis > > Greg -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20110330/13bfb16a/attachment.htm>
