On 12/06/2010 09:42 AM, fran.renard at free.fr wrote: > Hello, > > I'm about to use Scribus to publish a bimonthly magazine. > In this magazine, they are some articles and some informations. > Among these informations they are some programs that are extracted > from a database and should be inserted into the magazine, > with a nice page layout. > > I want to automate the maximum of tasks, and particularly, > the import and layout of the extracted programs. > > Could you tell me if Scribus is adapted for this job, > and which skills it will need. > > I suppose that I'll need some Python scripting, > and perhaps also some C++ coding (in order to import text) ? > > And could you give me some good examples and a list of Python scripts > and/or C++ packages that would be useful for my job ? > > And last, is it best to use the 1.3.3.14 scribus version, > or the last 1.3.9 one ?
I think you can safely use either. Just use the same version in the various OSes you are using. I would suggest that you consider starting out with creating a template for your newsletter, so that you manually figure out a layout which you like and can reuse. Learning about Master Pages is good for repetitive features like headlines. Scripting is of course possible, but I think not so likely that you will make newsletters from scratch with a script or scripts. We haven't had a lot of feedback from anyone who seems to make use of a database for content management. There aren't any built-in hooks for databases directly from Scribus. Greg
