Am 21.07.2014 um 01:52 schrieb Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com>:
> On 07/20/2014 01:26 PM, Marc Balmer 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? >> >> >> > Though perhaps not as automated as you are suggesting, you can certainly > create documents from scratch following some preset pattern. > > One example is this one: > > http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Automatic_import_of_images:_Versions_not_requiring_Tkinter > > which is some years old, and others have made their own versions for their > own needs. > > There is also this: > > http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/A_Standard_Form_with_Barcodes_and_Custom_Entries > > a version of which I use almost every day. > Each of these makes a document from scratch, the first makes as many pages as > needed, the second only a single page. > > As far as I know PDF export in Scripter has not been implemented. There is a > long-standing request to have Scribus run from the command line to perhaps do > some of what you are suggesting. Thanks for the examples. If I got that correctly, there is currently no way to do what I want, i.e. I have to call the scripts from the menu. Not, I don't want to create documents from scratch, but merely fill templates with proper data (some sort of database publishing). mb
