Am 08.11.2010 18:24, schrieb a.l.e: > hi stefan > >>> we are developing a print portal. The main intention is, that user >>> are able to choose from a sortiment of flyers and put customized >>> informations on it. Afterwards this flyer will be send as a pdf to >>> our printjobs. >>> The flyer templates are generated by an office using scribus. We >>> get the goods as pdf documents from them. >>> It is not a problem to insert some text into predefined spaces if >>> the text has a predefined maximum length. >>> In view to change words in a running text or to insert paragraphs in >>> different lengths, we need more flexibility on it. >>> On this topic the following question: >>> Is it possible to save a scribus project as a formatting objects >>> file (xsl-fo)? >>> or >>> Is it possible to invoke scribus through a script (Python or PHP)? > yes and no... > > you may be able to manipulate parts of a scribus file with external tools. > > you may be able to have an instance of scribus running on a server and > polling a directory for changes, act on it and produce PNGs and PDFs which > will be shown to the client or sent to the printer. > > you won't be able to invoke scribus on a server without X11 running or > getting scribus to just convert a .sla file into a pdf without running (even > without human interaction) its GUI. > > there is an effort ongoing to work on a CLI version of scribus but -- it's > partially my fault -- it does not advance as fast as one could wish. > > please, get in touch with me if you can give some money or some developing > work for such a project. > > > have a nice evening > a.l.e thanks for your fast answers. As it seems we must do some more on it. For the beginning we will continue using a fast version we thought about first. Thats ok for a start. Later on we will see if there are some possibilities to use scribus for it. It would be good to include more flexibility as our first approach allows.
regards stefan
