On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 15:07:34 -0400 John Harrold <jmh17 at pitt.edu> wrote:
> Howdy, > > I have something that I've been doing with latex and I was wondering if > scribus might be better to the job. We have an online application here > where students submit information in a web page. The information is stored > in a database and when the secretaries want it, a script pulls the info > from a database, does some search and replace on a latex template, compiles > the latex document and spits out a pdf for printing. > > Now for my silly question: Is it possible to create a template in scribus > and with scripts fill in the info for the template and produce a pdf file? > > I guess this would require running scribus in a batch mode with no user > interaction. Is this possible? > Hi, In short: it isn't possible. Not yet. Long answer: http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=238 br Maciej