[Scribus] PHP extension?

Christian Pernot christian
Wed Dec 5 10:38:56 CET 2007


Craig Ringer a ?crit :
> Christian Pernot wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> I was wondering if it would be possible to program a php extension for 
>> controlling scribus, using the Scribus API, as the command line doesn't 
>> exist at the moment.
>>     
> Scribus won't make a very good server process though. It's strictly 
> single threaded, slow to start up, the internal API isn't much fun to 
> work with, and existing remote control/scripting facilities are limited.
>
>
> So ... what are you actually trying to *do* by controlling Scribus from PHP?
>
>   
I need a powerfull, stable, serverside PDF engine (must do hyphenations).
But as you say, for the moment, scribus is single-threaded, which is 
annoying for me.

I'm having a look at LaTeX for now, and someone told me about iText.
If you have other ideas...


Thanks



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