Craig Bradney wrote: >On Friday 29 October 2004 18:22, mark wrote: > > >>I'm trying to work on a CLI for scribus to run python scripts w/o a >>gui. This would allow scribus to work as a PDF rendering engine for >>scribus XML files as templates, or, with a little help from python, a >>press-ready XSL-FO rendering engine. I'm trying to modify the program >>to do this, but it looks like the plugin system is heavily tied to QT. >>I wouldn't mind keeping the plugin system tie to QT and requiring QT and >>X for the command line process, but I can't seem to include >>scriptplugin.h w/o breaking a lot of dependencies in pconsole.h and >>other .h files in the plugin dir. Here's my diff with the very >>beginnings of my idea. >> >> > >The idea is good, tho XSL-FO is not designed for press work, hence we are not >using it for the new Scribus 1.3 format. > > Whether or not it is designed for press work there are industries using it for that. I understand the differences between content-based formatting and layout based formatting. But at some point the content-based formatting must be converted into a format that respects the target meduim if it is to be printed or rendered to PDF. I was thinking of a conversion process to take XSL-FO language documents and turn them into Scribus' layout-based file format, then render them into press-ready PDFs. Perhaps this is not possible, or at least not practical to get good results.
>The whole program is highly tied to Qt. Will be interesting to see your idea >progress. > > grr... I guess I will have to do more C++ programming than I thought. What are the ramifications of attaching another Python scripting interface that is not tied to Qt, then replacing the original python interface with the decoupled one and a Qt interface? Is that a direction that Scribus is willing to go towards? I do have another project that is completely unrelated to XSL-FO, I just need to create some course material for a university from a database. I python script to combine Scribus's XML with data from a database and then render to PDF seems like the best solution for creating custom booklets from a web site.
