On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 4:56 AM, ale rimoldi <ale.comp_06 at xox.ch> wrote:
> hi hw, > > On 04/04/16 11:44, hw wrote: > >> Juraj Fedel schrieb: >> >>> On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 12:41:53PM +0200, hw wrote: >>> >>>> I've been trying the script below with the 1.5.1 appimage, >>>> and it crashes when trying to save as EPS. >>>> >>> Thanks for report. That is bug in scribus. >>> I have provided patch in bug number #13900 >>> With applied patch your script should work fine. >>> >> >> Thank you very much! I'll try it out. >> >> BTW, is it possible to run Scribus to do the conversion to EPS >>>> (or PDF) on the server without Scribus failing because there's no >>>> X session? Can it be compiled as some sort of conversion filter >>>> without GUI support? >>>> >>> >>> Unfortunately this is not possible without X server running. >>> You can however run vnc server for scribus. >>> >> >> Not even with the '-g -nns' options? It would be really nice if >> a GUI weren't required when it isn't used at all ... Is there any >> way to do just a conversion of the *.sla file to eps without a GUI? >> >> Or could cups simply print *.sla files transparently like it can print, >> for example, pdf and eps? That would be all that's needed for >> printing the labels. If there was a filter cups could use to convert >> *.sla into eps ... >> > > modifying scribus so that it can be run without X installed is > theoretically possible. > at least for what concerns scribus itself and Qt. i don't know if any of > the used library requires X (but i don't think so). > > i don't think that the team will ever have the resources for doing it, but > as it has happened in the past, they will accept well forged patches that > modify the code to enable (i would suggest: if possible step by step) an > X-less environment. > > an approach would be to create a main_*.cpp file that instantiates > QCoreApplication instead of QApplication... > and then work on it until things work correctly... > > lot of changes have already being contributed, to get scribus to work > headless, so it might now be easier to work on it (i made some very shy > tries a few years ago...) > > have fun! > a.l.e Related: https://www.simplicity.be/article/indesign-server-alternative-open-source-part1 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20160404/ef172a64/attachment.html>
