[scribus] If not D-BUS, then what?

[a.l.e]

hi tyson,
> OK, here's what I am trying to do.
>
> I have a flyer that I plan on having the marketing droids design. It 
> will be laid out exactly how the company wants, but I plan on 
> inserting sales contact information/photo depending upon who is 
> electronically requesting the flyer -- a customer in region A will get 
> Salesman Joe, and a customer filling out from a location where 
> disaffected college students live will get one from one of salesmen 
> Larry, Curly, and Moe. I'd say to do a mail merge to do this, but I 
> wanted better control of the layout -- and I also didn't want to have 
> a human have to start scribus and exec the script -- just call scribus 
> on demand when the docs are needed, so that we don't waste paper just 
> to have enough flyers on hand. (Depending upon how they request it, 
> most would get a PDF anyway...)
>
> I can use xsl/htmldoc to render it -- but it won't look as good.

just let them download the .sla and modify it at their wish :-)


more serioulsy. the short answer to your request is: scribus is not 
ready yet to be used as a server application.

at the beginning of october, a mail to the scribus-dev mailing list by 
stefan gave an hint how this can be achieved with scribus (keywords: 
cloud, http, framebuffer).

i plan to work on this issue in spring next year (if nobody does it 
before)... let's see if it's possible to find a good solution.

ciao
a.l.e