[scribus] Scribus Generator: turn your data in beautiful documents

[Gregory Pittman]

On 03/27/2017 10:16 AM, ale rimoldi wrote:
> hi
> 
>> I have used CSV files with Scribus in the past, and never bothered with
>> LibreOffice or any spreadsheet program, since the whole point of CSV to
>> me is that they're just comma separated values. I just used a text
>> editor with lines of text separated by commas, and never had issues.
> 
> yes, for your own entries typing CSV by hand might be a comfortable
> solution.
> 
> the format is pretty simple.
> 
> but if you want to read "random" content generated by your users (like
> journalists writing articles) you'd better use a tool that generates
> valid CSV and read it with a CSV library.
> 
> you never know where a "," a """, or even a "\" might be hiding...

If you open it in a text editor, I'm not sure where you think they might
hide --

Greg