On Jun 20, 2006, at 5:36 AM, scribus-request at nashi.altmuehlnet.de wrote:
> Message: 6 > Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 01:59:09 +0100 > From: Dave <dave at lab6.com> > Subject: [Scribus] Design Processed: Blue Sky Scribus Ideas > To: scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > Message-ID: > <2285a9d20606191759x6b819d81r43e8fdec38814bca at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > Hi All, > > As part of my Interaction Design degree at Ravensbourne College, > London, I've prepared http://www.designprocessed.com - an essay on > some 'blue sky' or 'what if...' ideas centered around Scribus. > > While of course not real features to put into the bugtracker, I would > very much appreciate comments from anyone and everyone :-) > > -- > Regards, > Dave Dave, Great thinking. Your discussion is more on the design side of things (which is in itself an interesting topic), but the concept of scripting the creation of a file is really interesting. I have looked at the file structures myself and thought about how I might auto-generate documents with the knowledge of the basic file structures. In my case, I would be building templates for blank sheets of media labels. If I were to write a basic python script that could take the placement/shape and size attributes of a label and auto-generate a template file, I could use my product measurements (in a data file) to create the files for me! The code may be useful in the future as a 'super step and repeat' function or something similar. While I'm still far off from extending scribus in this way, I will be glad to submit these back to the development for inclusion or use in any way when I have some working code. Thanks again to the development team.
