On Friday 12 December 2008 09:34:27 am Gregory Pittman wrote: > John Culleton wrote: > > How about a stripper? An .sla file is pretty unreadable as is. > > But with a simple Gvim command I took a book cover template and > > revealed > > > > its sexy inner secrets. The Gvim command: > > :%s/" /" \r/g > > > > This yields a file that looks like this (extract): > > --------------------------------------------------------- > > PAGEHEIGHT="666" > > PAGEWIDTH="918" > > PAGEYPOS="20" > > HorizontalGuides="441 477 663 " > > MNAM="Normal" > > PAGEXPOS="100" > > NumHGuides="3" > > VerticalGuides="" > > BORDERLEFT="27" > > /> > > </DOCUMENT> > > </SCRIBUSUTF8NEW> > > --------------------------------------- > > Now this can be edited pretty easily by hand or by program (think > > sed) to change page dimensions, guide locations and so on. Of > > course dimensions need to be expressed in points. This example is > > 1.3.3.12 based as I recall so it is readable by both 1.3.3.x and > > 1.3.5 etc. > > > > Why is this useful? Well dimensions of a book spine are > > calculated based on number of pages and pages per inch plus a > > factor for the thickness of the cover itself. Hand calculation > > can be error prone. A program which takes in the raw data (pages, > > pages per inch, page size etc.) can spit out a template with the > > correct dimensions and spine guides, similar to what LSI template > > maker provides but without the LSI-specific trimming around the > > edges. > > Here is a perl program that does a similar thing: > (what I've done is strip out the #! /usr/bin/env perl and pasted > the rest here. When I have tried to attach perl scripts in the > past, they get scrubbed away) > **** > > use XML::Parser; > > $parser = new XML::Parser( Style => 'Tree' ); > my $tree = $parser->parsefile( shift @ARGV ); > > use Data::Dumper; > print Dumper( $tree ); > > **** > This creates an output similar to what you've done. Since it's a > perl program, it could be modified to further parse out details. > This output is typically many lines long. > > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus
About 8000, but who's counting? -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm
