On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 11:46 PM, Kunda Loves Scribus <scribus.user at gmail.com > wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 8:03 PM, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> > wrote: > >> Kunda asked me to write a script that would scramble the text in a >> document for privacy reasons. >> >> It seemed that ideally such a script should retain the structure of the >> original as far as styles, linespacing, and so on, and since this wasn't an >> exercise in sending a secret message that could be deciphered, no set >> conversion algorithm should be used. >> >> So I began with the character-by-character analytical feature of >> en+emdash.py, but instead of just looking for hyphens, modified to look for >> all letters a-z and A-Z. >> Using the python random module, it's easy to repeatedly generate random >> letters of the alphabet to replace the originals. >> >> So far I have failed to get this to work on an entire document, but am >> able to make it work on all the frames on a page. >> >> http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Scrambling_Text >> >> Greg >> > > Hey Greg, > Thanks again for taking the time, my friend. I plan to utilize this script > very soon (when I get a chunk of time to dedicate to that process). I also > hope that this strategy can be offered and utilized by others who have bugs > but don't wish to submit the .sla due to any privacy/confidentiality > reasons. > > Really appreciate your work, skill, and your patience. > > Cheers, > /Kunda > Created: http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/How_to_submit_bug_report_with_sensitive_data What would be useful, IMO, is if we had the below links as part of the MantisBT navbar to orient the uninformed how to: 1. http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/How_to_submit_bug_report_with_sensitive_data 2. http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/How_to_file_a_bug_report 3. http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/How_to_debug_for_reporting Cheers, /Kunda -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20140610/a5cbc971/attachment.html>
