[scribus] Changing covers for each copy

[Owen]

On Mon, 04 Oct 2010 17:51:45 +0200
Rolf-Werner Eilert <eilert-sprachen at t-online.de> wrote:

> Does anyone here remember the (Dutch?) art student project with 
> catalogues that had different covers for each of the x-hundred copies?
> 
> How did they do that eventually? Was there a script from within
> Scribus? And did they publish it somewhere? I had a similar idea (of
> a much lower scope), and their code might help me understand how they
> managed this.



Hi Rolf,

I do not think that there is any magic to this.

Depending on what you want to do, it is just a python looping exercise.

for i in range(1, n ):
    open a new document
    place personalised text/do whatever
    save document

These may also give you pointers;
http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Importing_addresses_from_a_text_file 
http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Poor_man's_mail_merge


Do you have more of a specification?




Owen