We are using this script (an earlier version) for several years now to mail newsletters to "people in a database". There are issues, but we need those feature and do not regret the time spent to tame this power-tool.
We know that we have all sorts of punctuation in our database like "Dear Aunt, dear Uncle!"; so I hacked the script and it lets us pick our own deliminator (Data Field Separator). (We are using "#".) I believe this feature has made it long since into the main script - and it can make all the difference on whether your data agrees with the script - or whether you need to pre-process a lot. Please give this a try, it is an awesome tool which has helped to move many of our documents over from Corel Draw to Scribus. I would encourage the Scribus team and the Scribus Generator team to be friends (or stay friends if you are). There are certain things like pop-up-windows upon each PDF-export which would best be fixed from the Scribus end and which would boost performance and stability of the script. I believe this script is a must-have for Scribus and should be endorsed and encouraged by the developers in any way possible. We appreciate it a lot. greetings, Martin On 27.03.2017 15:16, ale rimoldi wrote: > hi > >> I have used CSV files with Scribus in the past, and never bothered with >> LibreOffice or any spreadsheet program, since the whole point of CSV to >> me is that they're just comma separated values. I just used a text >> editor with lines of text separated by commas, and never had issues. > > yes, for your own entries typing CSV by hand might be a comfortable > solution. > > the format is pretty simple. > > but if you want to read "random" content generated by your users (like > journalists writing articles) you'd better use a tool that generates > valid CSV and read it with a CSV library. > > you never know where a "," a """, or even a "\" might be hiding... > > ciao > a.l.e > > ___ > 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 > > __________ Hinweis von ESET NOD32 Antivirus, Signaturdatenbank-Version 15141 > (20170324) __________ > > E-Mail wurde gepr?ft mit ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com > > > > -- ZASKE Martin responsable G?G? BP 50 - Bassila - B?nin tel G?G? 66.66.11.11 tel pers 97.44.62.95
