hi tyson, > OK, here's what I am trying to do. > > I have a flyer that I plan on having the marketing droids design. It > will be laid out exactly how the company wants, but I plan on > inserting sales contact information/photo depending upon who is > electronically requesting the flyer -- a customer in region A will get > Salesman Joe, and a customer filling out from a location where > disaffected college students live will get one from one of salesmen > Larry, Curly, and Moe. I'd say to do a mail merge to do this, but I > wanted better control of the layout -- and I also didn't want to have > a human have to start scribus and exec the script -- just call scribus > on demand when the docs are needed, so that we don't waste paper just > to have enough flyers on hand. (Depending upon how they request it, > most would get a PDF anyway...) > > I can use xsl/htmldoc to render it -- but it won't look as good.
just let them download the .sla and modify it at their wish :-) more serioulsy. the short answer to your request is: scribus is not ready yet to be used as a server application. at the beginning of october, a mail to the scribus-dev mailing list by stefan gave an hint how this can be achieved with scribus (keywords: cloud, http, framebuffer). i plan to work on this issue in spring next year (if nobody does it before)... let's see if it's possible to find a good solution. ciao a.l.e
