On 6/20/05, Christoph Sch?fer <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de> wrote: > On the DTP side, it would be extremely useful if scribus could provide a > database interface for text frames. If a text frame could be linked to a > database entry, many restraints on productivity would be removed in a > single step, especially if the whole process could be done via scripting.
If this were done, it might make sense to really push the distribution model and make Scribus Internet-aware. Writers could submit (and edit) their pieces via a secure website as easily as webmail or a CMS site. The negative side to either version is that there's no way to apply character styles (once we have them), because the information is stored remotely and is presumably not editable through Scribus. You're stuck with exactly one paragraph style per frame. Maybe this is OK for really long and consistent documents, like catalogs. There could be workarounds for this if the content passed through the text filter, but my understanding is that it would be stored as an text entry in a database, and not as an OOo file or anything like that. Steve -- Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. - Mark Twain
