[scribus] modifying sla directly WAS Schedule for next major release.

[John Culleton]

On Friday 12 December 2008 09:34:27 am Gregory Pittman wrote:
> John Culleton wrote:
> > How about a stripper?  An .sla file is pretty unreadable as is.
> > But with a simple Gvim command I took a book cover template and
> > revealed
> >
> > its sexy inner secrets. The Gvim command:
> > :%s/" /" \r/g
> >
> > This yields a file that looks like this (extract):
> > ---------------------------------------------------------
> > PAGEHEIGHT="666"
> > PAGEWIDTH="918"
> > PAGEYPOS="20"
> > HorizontalGuides="441 477 663 "
> > MNAM="Normal"
> > PAGEXPOS="100"
> > NumHGuides="3"
> > VerticalGuides=""
> > BORDERLEFT="27"
> > />
> >  </DOCUMENT>
> > </SCRIBUSUTF8NEW>
> > ---------------------------------------
> > Now this can be edited pretty easily by hand or by program (think
> > sed) to change page dimensions,  guide locations and so on.  Of
> > course dimensions need to be expressed in points. This example is
> > 1.3.3.12 based as I recall so it is readable by both 1.3.3.x and
> > 1.3.5 etc.
> >
> > Why is this useful? Well dimensions of a book spine are
> > calculated based on number of pages and pages per inch plus a
> > factor for the thickness of the cover itself.  Hand calculation
> > can be error prone. A program which takes in the raw data (pages,
> > pages per inch, page size etc.) can spit out a template with the
> > correct dimensions and spine guides, similar to what LSI template
> > maker provides but without the LSI-specific trimming around the
> > edges.
>
> Here is a perl program that does a similar thing:
> (what I've done is strip out the #! /usr/bin/env perl and pasted
> the rest here. When I have tried to attach perl scripts in the
> past, they get scrubbed away)
> ****
>
> use XML::Parser;
>
> $parser = new XML::Parser( Style => 'Tree' );
> my $tree = $parser->parsefile( shift @ARGV );
>
> use Data::Dumper;
> print Dumper( $tree );
>
> ****
> This creates an output similar to what you've done. Since it's a
> perl program, it could be modified to further parse out details.
> This output is typically many lines long.
>
> Greg
>
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