New to Scribus scripting and because of the version of Scribus and Ghostscript I'm running, exporting to PDFs is a pain. I have to save the .sla file then fire up my laptop, which is running an older version of Debian, to create the PDF. Debian/Buster has a problem with importing postscript & PDFs and with creating PDFs.
However the far larger problem I'm currently having is that I have a hundred-page document with hundreds of e-mail addresses and a lot of web addresses that I'd like to automatically locate and create external links for. Doing this by hand will take forever. After manually creating a few then looking at the .sla file, I note that the PDF links are, as expected, not really associated with the text. Instead, as the create sequence implies, they are associated with a bit of real estate on the page that (hopefully) aligns with some underlying text or image. This suggests that a script would need to: 1) seek e-mail addresses (identified by text that looks like an e-mail address), 2) identify the position and size of the address on the page, 3) create a PDF link element with that address. Has anyone seen / used such a script or something similar that I can work from? Thanks for any assistance.
