Wayne Maeda wrote: >What's the best way to import a multi-page database report into Scribus? I've >tried exporting from database to postscript file but was not successful in >importing it into Scribus; it only loaded the first page, if any at all. Most >of the databases I've tried either print the reports directly to the printer >or to a postscript file. Is there a way to convert a postscript file to text? > > > I don't have the answer to this, yet I think it's a feature request in the making. Some kinds of software treat database files as a table, and since Scribus has tables, it would seem possible to develop something here. I use postgres, and it has a facility to export to html as well as a plain text file. It might be possible to edit the html output from it without a lot of work. AFAIK it's not especially good at importing from other formats. I don't know what sorts of things OOffice Calc can do.
The more expansive idea here might be for Scribus to have a table in which the elements are an array or hash which point to filenames, which might be text, images, svg, whatever. It might be a whole new way of doing a repetitive structured DTP file such as a newsletter. From its own perspective, Scribus may turn out to be quite the killer app. Greg
