Alessandro Ronchi wrote: > Hi to all. > My need is to create a newspaper from a wordpress blog, getting the > most important news and putting them in a single pdf file. > I want to span in two columns and have an header. > > My problem is I don't want to do it by hand every week, but I need a > script that gets the data (i already have it) and puts it in a > formatted way to pdf. > > I didn't found anything that fits this need: latex doesn't support > multiple columns span (it's written on latex documentation) and > reportlab is too complicated and it lacks examples to write a text > spanned into two columns. > > So I thought the best solution would be scribus, if it's possible to > use its documents from scripts and put the data into placeholder in > templates. I would write a scribus document and put the data into it > by scripts. > > Is it possible? > Is there any example of such a thing? > Here is something that Scribus can do which may be of help - automatic text frames: http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Working_with_text_frames#Automatic_Text_Frame_Creation
Beyond that, creating styles that you save and reuse will markedly reduce the effort for a repetitive work like you're describing. Greg
