Am 04.07.2011 20:22, schrieb Gregory Pittman: > On 07/04/2011 01:41 PM, wibr wrote: >> Hi, >> >> so I would like to use Scribus to create some flashcards. It should work >> like this: >> 1. I have a .txt file with my flashcards >> 2. I create two pages in Scribus how they will look like, one for each >> side of the flashcards >> 3. I will do some python magic, load the .txt and create many pages with >> flashcards. >> 4. I can edit the cards if I want or just export them to pdf. >> >> So here is my question: Should I manipulate the xml or let the script >> run in Scribus? >> >> I think editing the xml shouldn't be too hard, but I don't completely >> understand the file format, is there any recent documentation available? >> Especially I would like to know how I could duplicate pages. >> I had a look at it: <PAGE> is a page and it gets a number NUM, and >> <PAGEOBJECT> is something on a page and it has an attribute "OwnPage". >> So I tried to move pageobjects between pages by editing the "OwnPage" >> number, but that didn't work...so how does Scribus know, which object >> belongs to which page? >> >> Or maybe using python in Scribus would be easier? I am more familiar >> with xml editing, though... >> > > Hi Wilhelm, > > I would start by manually making a few cards, so that you can work out > document page size, what sort of font, font size and style, spacing, > etc., you want to use. > > After that, I would be inclined to use a script inside Scribus to make a > document from a text file, so that you can create pages as needed, with > frames, paragraph styles and so on. > You might make it less demanding on the scripting end by just putting > text into new frames on as many pages as needed, then applying the > styles in Scribus later. > Here is a simple script showing some of the methods: > http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Importing_addresses_from_a_text_file > > Having said that, it's worth making a 2-page document, then looking at > the SLA file to see how much work it would be to generate a file using > python outside of Scribus. I sense that you have a long way to go to > understand what parts of the file are used for various aspects of the > document. Even if you know xml, I think you'll find an SLA file > challenging. > > Another approach /might/ come from using text filters, but then I think > you would need to deal with the problem of making new pages and frames... > > Greg > > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net >
Hi Greg, thanks for the quick reply. To be a bit more specific: I don't want to create the whole document in python. Let's say I want 8 flashcards on each DinA4 page. So I create two pages in Scribus, instead of the flashcard text I use dummy text like $def1 and $def2, everything formatted nicely like I want. The only thing I want to do with python is opening the xml, knowing exactly where the two pages are. Then I will just copy those pages as many times as needed, always replacing the dummy text with the real flashcards. I did something like that with svg and Inkscape once and it worked out very well. So I don't need or want to understand the whole Scribus xml, I would just need to know how the pages work. However, I will also look at the scripter API. Thanks, Wilhelm
