[scribus] Printing an SLA without using X11

[Peter Nermander]

> I need to be able to print (or export to PDF or ghostscript) SLAs with
> no human intervention. After creating letter or form templates and
> having our database merge arbitrary account information selected at
> arbitrary times by any of our users for an arbitrary number of
> templates, I need to be able to print them with no human intervention.
> We are already doing this with a deprecated proprietary word processor
> (wordperfect 10) which is the last mission critical application forcing
> us to depend on a proprietary deprecated "operating system".

You haven't considered creating PDF forms with Scribus and let the
database populate the forms?

Because there are command line tools to populate PDF forms.

/Peter