Unfortunately, I do not have a Windows build environment either. I can change them to 'Juraj Fedel'.Ģ) I think that removing the 'ugly hack' of testing () instead of app.useGUI affects Scribus at a much more systemic level and would change this 150 line patch that affects 6 files into a several thousand line patch that affects a large number of files and should be its own issue in Mantis related to a truly headless version of Scribus.Īlso, maybe it is not that ugly at all - the same mechanism would allow a -initial-python-script that could run before continuing with the GUI, so testing () might be more appropriate than testing app.useGUI.ģ) The comments say Linux-only because it was never tested under Windows rather than because it does anything operating system specific. Juraj said that he is OK with my making what changes are necessary to have the patch accepted.Ī.l.e posted earlier posted several objections to the patches:ġ) Several comments have the initials 'JF'. It was the first time that I used Mantis, and when I made the entry, the 'Attached Files' seemed a logical place for the patch. The patches are in the link at the top 'Attached Files scribus-cmd-wb-28jul14.pat (6,294 bytes) 14-Jul-29 21:44'. I have been posting this or similar solution since 2006 (and Scribus You will anyway find some limitation because scribus really is not in Use only python script without bugs (he, he :) tText('Name', 'Text1') # get 'Name' and 'Address' from databaseĪnd you have your output1.pdf file created! You can create template scribus document 'mydoc.sla' with two textįrames and this small python script 'data.py' in the same directory:

I have posted another set of patches relative to Scribus 1.5.0svn of 28 July 2014. These patches were written by Juraj Fedel and posted for Scribus 1.4.4. 0012572: Add a -python-script command line option to run a script and exit

Scribus python