On 03/03/2011 12:24 AM, Stefan Riffert wrote:
Hello HTH,
Unfortunately scribus only supports svg, eps and pdf.
I had some mails with the developers of scribus.
The option to invoke scibus in the commandline is planned. But no one
knows when...
I also asked if there is any option to convert the src files to FO or
something like this. Nothing.
Using svg might be a solution.
The problem is, that my time is short and I never worked with svg like
this.
Do you know some libraries that provide functionality to add text and
images to svg files? Or where to start reading?
It doesn't seem like an easy task to accomplish with limited time.
SVG is an XML format. So basically a decent XML parser would serve the
purpose. However, there are lots of CLI SVG tool kits that will probably
save you much time. See:
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/wiki/Implementations
Years ago that page had many more implementations. I assume Batik is the
best, so they dropped the rest. SVG is very "scripting friendly".
I'm not 100% sure what you are trying to do, but I had a look at the
Scribus PDF form support. I guess you want to insert the user's values
into the form and generate the PDF. So, if you have the Scribus document
exported as an SVG file, you'd navigate the DOM to find the element you
want to add the text to. You may need to use place holder text in the
SVG file and then replace that text rather than insert it.
You'll have to ask the SVG gurus about that. I think it's probably the
cleanest and most maintainable way to achieve your goal.
Props for using FOSS. d
HTH
