On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Marc Balmer <marc at msys.ch> wrote:
> Currently we use LaTeX to produce PDF from the commandline (or rather, > from within our applications). We run a scrip that creates a LaTeX > sourcefile, fires up latex, and returns the resulting PDF. > > I am now trying to find out if that would be possible with Scribus > somehow. E.g. we would fire up scribus with the name of a Python script > and the name of document. The script would then populate the document with > data and output it to PDF. > > Is that possible? Can we run a Python script at startup, or, can we run > python and start Scribus from within? Or, in other words, are there ways > to automate Scribus without user interaction, i.e. from the commandline? > This would be a powerful feature. Auto-populating forms would be pretty sweet, not without some work though. And Scribus is short on manpower. There were some efforts that I've come across in the bug tracker: http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=238 http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=967 These are 3 digit bugs so that means they've been around for a while :) I also am no authority, so it would be nice to hear from others who know better what possibilities there are in this context. Cheers, /Kunda -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20140720/1882cbcb/attachment.html>
