-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 22/06/12 16:01, Aleksander Kujbida wrote: > Now I'm feeling more optimistic! Putting content on top of a template PDF > would not likely work > for us. Consider a real example, perhaps I should have mentioned earlier, a > method statement: > > This doc is a list of instructions. It may contain 3 steps, or 12 steps, or > whatever. Each step > has a heading. Each step has an optional image. The heading, body, and image > placement and size > must all comply with our page layout rules and styles.
This sounds like a job for LaTeX - I guess scribus would also be possible, but an overkill and to complicated. Cheers, Rainer > > Other examples, familiar to everyone: invoice, delivery order, quote. It's > these popular > examples that make me think that a headless version would be well-received. I > heard yesterday > during a meeting with a graphics designer that he is disgusted with his own > invoicing > application, because he can't customize the appearance of the quotes and > invoices he sends to > his customers, which doesn't reflect well on him, especially as a graphics > company. > > Though overlaying a PDF template won't work, if we had a comprehensive > script, then I could > train someone to operate Scribus just enough to know how to run the script > and print a PDF, > according to the workflow you have described. > > I would like to see your example PDF of conferences (any events in Munich > July 3 to 10? I'm > visiting on holiday!). Regards, Aleksander > > On 22 June 2012 17:35, a.l.e <ale.comp_06 at xox.ch> wrote: > >> then just create the layout with scribus, produce a pdf, optimize its size >> and use the >> created pdf as a background for the PDFs generated by your php or python >> classes! as said, >> easy to do with PHP and fpdf/fpdi or other similar libraries. >> >> >> on the other side, if you have somebody pulling in the text "manually" >> scribus will be ok: - >> you open your template - launch the script - get the script to show the >> datasets available >> (and ready) on the server - let the script pull the correct dataset and fill >> your frames with >> it - produce the pdf >> >> i don't think that it's public, yet (so i can't link it in here), but i can >> show you the >> schedule i've helped producing for this years the rencontres mondiales du >> logiciel libre >> (http://rmll.info): - the user clicks on the first frame of a chain (in this >> case!) - he runs >> the script which pulls in the data which as been exported from the server as >> csv - tweaks the >> layout - produces the pdf (the script is only producing the part with the >> list of all >> conferences! the rest is the graphics designer's work) i can send you the >> resulting pdf, >> tomorrow if you want to seeit. >> >> it is possible (and not that difficult) to create a script that pulls >> directly the >> information from a website and places different parts in different frames >> (you just have to >> match the fields on the weboutput and the frames in the scribus pages). >> >> this is something which is doable with scribus now. without any hacks! >> >> but, again, all depends on what you want to do... and we still know nothing >> about it! >> >> ciao >> >> a.l.e >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20120622/60f13180/attachment.html> > ___ > 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 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk/kfNwACgkQoYgNqgF2egrR6wCePwKGTbn5IIEbWjfqInbTwH8w UuoAn23RWpxZoSrB6fJH3GWBUwnOoDkt =FGAu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
