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On Monday, January 18, 2021 2:30 PM, Gregory Pittman <gpitt...@iglou.com> wrote:
> On 1/18/21 2:13 PM, dboland9 wrote:
>
> > I'm doing a book a lot like a cookbook full of recipe-like documents. I
> > have most of the documents in a database that can export text and HTML.
> > Pictures are included and exported in the HTML documents. What I would like
> > to do (if I knew how) would be create templates for the book, chapters, and
> > recipe-like documents. Then import them easily into the appropriate
> > template. My hope is that the text and image frames are somehow named so
> > that the document title goes to the Title frame, The supplies (ingredients)
> > goes into the Supplies text frame (two columns with bullets), and the
> > procedure steps goes into the Procedure (instructions) frame with numbers.
> > Can this be done, and how in general terms? No problem reading through the
> > documentation once I know what to look for. This would be a great subject
> > for a tutorial (hint hint).
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> The short answer is no. You can import HTML text into a text frame. Images
> will simply show the link for the image file, in the text frame.
>
> Greg
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Greg,
I think you may be wrong. After a lot of Googling, I see there is a mail merge
script for Scribus that may work. I need to do more work on this though. The
problem (perhaps) is that it uses a cvs file. My db won't export a csv file
directly.
Dave,
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