On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 08:51 +0000, John Kershaw wrote: > Has anyone written a primer for people wishing to recreate their > Quark Applescript systems using Scribus & Python?
Not that I'm aware of, not that that means much. > We have a dozen or so Applescripts that perform a range of tasks for > us in Quark 3 running under Classic. I'd dearly like to dump it (and > Classic) for Scribus, but need to get my head around scripting. Ooh! Is there any chance you can post descriptions of what they do (on- list, or private if you prefer)? What's really needed now is more real- world use cases, exactly like what you describe. By the way, there are a lot of holes in the scripter's coverage of Scribus's capabilities. Each function in the scripter must currently be hand-coded. There are plans afoot to address this, but any results would land in 1.3.something at best. In the mean time, things must be hand-coded. Some are trivial some are *very* non-trivial. If you find something missing, yell... Petr or I might be able to put something together. > A comparative, line-by-line run through of a something like 'make > doc, make pic box, import pic, make text box, import text, add > styles, save, close' done in AppleScript & Python would be ideal. You send me the AppleScript, and I'll send you a Python version if I can. What little AppleScript I used to know, I've successfully purged from my memory ;-) -- Craig Ringer
