On 22/06/2012 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. > > 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. this is exactly the use we make with slatpl2sla and sla2pdf :)
> 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 -- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20120622/47803cf2/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: card_fra_120.png Type: image/png Size: 26994 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20120622/47803cf2/attachment.png>
