[scribus] Using scribus to create PDFs from the commandline

Tue Jul 29 13:34:29 UTC 2014

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 2:52 AM, JLuc <jluc at no-log.org> wrote:

> Le 29/07/2014 01:54, William Bader a écrit :
>
>  On Sun Jul 27 17:32:02 UTC 2014, Juraj Fedel wtxnh-scribus at
>> yahoo.com.au wrote:   > On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 07:26:28PM +0200, Marc
>> Balmer wrote:> > Or, in other words, are there ways to automate Scribus
>> without user> > interaction, i.e. from the commandline?>> Let me try once
>> more to present my solution to this problem! At the> bottom of the mail is
>> small patch that enables exactly what Marc is> asking for.>> You can create
>> template scribus document 'mydoc.sla' with two text> frames and this small
>> python script 'data.py' in the same directory:>> import scribus>
>> scribus.openDoc('mydoc.sla')> scribus.setText('Name', 'Text1') # get 'Name'
>> and 'Address' from database> scribus.setText('Address', 'Text2')> pdf =
>> scribus.PDFfile()> pdf.file = 'output1.pdf'> pdf.save()>> Then run scribus
>> as folo
>>   w:> scribus --python-script data.py>> and you have your output1.pdf
>> file created!...> PS:> I have been posting this or similar solution since
>> 2006 (and Scribus> version 1.2 I was using at that time). I would be glad
>> if at least one> person try to compile scribus with this patch and confirm
>> that it works> on some other computer than mine! If you find it useful it
>> would be> extra bonus.
>> Thank you for posting the patch!  I had also been looking for a way to
>> run Scribus without user interaction.
>> The patch needed only a small change to work with the current 1.5.0svn
>> under Fedora 20.  The example worked except for some font issues in the
>> generated PDF which I think are unrelated to the patch.
>> I have attached an updated version of the patch.
>>
>
> Could you please post this patch in the bug tracker so it got more chances
> of getting reviewed ?
> http://bugs.scribus.net
>
> Thanks
> JLuc

Perhaps posting in one of these
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=238
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=967

Cheers,
/Kunda

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 2:52 AM, JLuc <jluc at no-log.org> wrote:

> Le 29/07/2014 01:54, William Bader a écrit :
>
>  On Sun Jul 27 17:32:02 UTC 2014, Juraj Fedel wtxnh-scribus at
>> yahoo.com.au wrote:   > On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 07:26:28PM +0200, Marc
>> Balmer wrote:> > Or, in other words, are there ways to automate Scribus
>> without user> > interaction, i.e. from the commandline?>> Let me try once
>> more to present my solution to this problem! At the> bottom of the mail is
>> small patch that enables exactly what Marc is> asking for.>> You can create
>> template scribus document 'mydoc.sla' with two text> frames and this small
>> python script 'data.py' in the same directory:>> import scribus>
>> scribus.openDoc('mydoc.sla')> scribus.setText('Name', 'Text1') # get 'Name'
>> and 'Address' from database> scribus.setText('Address', 'Text2')> pdf =
>> scribus.PDFfile()> pdf.file = 'output1.pdf'> pdf.save()>> Then run scribus
>> as folo
>>   w:> scribus --python-script data.py>> and you have your output1.pdf
>> file created!...> PS:> I have been posting this or similar solution since
>> 2006 (and Scribus> version 1.2 I was using at that time). I would be glad
>> if at least one> person try to compile scribus with this patch and confirm
>> that it works> on some other computer than mine! If you find it useful it
>> would be> extra bonus.
>> Thank you for posting the patch!  I had also been looking for a way to
>> run Scribus without user interaction.
>> The patch needed only a small change to work with the current 1.5.0svn
>> under Fedora 20.  The example worked except for some font issues in the
>> generated PDF which I think are unrelated to the patch.
>> I have attached an updated version of the patch.
>>
>
> Could you please post this patch in the bug tracker so it got more chances
> of getting reviewed ?
> http://bugs.scribus.net
>
> Thanks
> JLuc
>
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