Bruno Girin <brunogi...@gmail.com> escribió: >On 7 November 2013 10:22, Simon Greenwood <sfgreenw...@gmail.com> >wrote: > >> >> >> >> On 7 November 2013 07:39, Andres <a75...@alumni.tecnun.es> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> I was thinking of doing a photo album and then having it printed at >my >>> local reprographics shop. All of it avoiding SAAS and using free >libre open >>> source software (floss). >>> >>> How would you go about it? >>> Use something like digikam in combination with scribus? >>> >>> >> Scribus on its own will produce print ready output. I've made photo >> calendars and labels with it, and most small print shops will accept >PDFs. >> I use Shotwell for photo management and GIMP for editing but might >have a >> look at Digikam in future. >> > >I've done it the python way for our business cards: I have a python >script >that picks up employee details from a JSON file, uses those details to >populate an SVG template using jinja2 and then calls rsvg-convert to >transform them into PDF. The script is 40 lines of code and produces >print >ready output. > >The benefit of the script route is that you can customise the source >and >content so for example, you can make the script pick up all the photos >that >are within a date range and automatically generate your photo album >based >on that which means you could do a "my year in pictures" album every >Christmas. Or you can generate album and labels using the same source >of >data by just using a different template. > >Of course, if it's for a one-off, Scribus is the right tool for this. >On >the other had, why spend 5 minutes doing something when you can spend 5 >hours automating it? ;-) >
Thanks for the input guys! Bruno, Would the python script be available under a free software licence? Could you send me a copy? I might use it to generate a LaTeX document. -- Enviado desde mi teléfono con K-9 Mail. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
