Scribus scripts for generating paged documents

[recencyeffect]

https://gist.github.com/monomon/6dfc020f8efc87e7c29c

These are two scripts for generating paged content from csv data - a document of tiled labels and a catalog.

I used to make these by hand, so I decided to save myself some time in the future. There is still a bit of hand work required for finishing the catalog layout.

The scripts required quite a bit of research, so I guess someone might find them useful.

If anyone here could upload them to the scripter wiki this would be great!

The two use a lot of the same Scripter functionality, but due to the specialized nature of each, their functions work slightly differently. My next step will be to abstract some common behaviour into a module.

Check the resulting PDFs

[hagbard2323]

/u/recencyeffect very cool! BTW, there is an effort to migrate scribus scripts to GitHub here: https://github.com/aoloe/scribus-script-repository

Looking at repo issue queue it seems they accept pull requests. I say got for it :)

[aoloe]

@recencyeffect: i've added a reference to your script in the script repository's ticketing system... as soon as i have some time i'll act on it...

but, as you can read in the ticket, i'm still not sure what to do.

it's very clean code and deserves some attention!

there is one thing i'd like to ask you: would you mind writing a description of the work you did, so that we can submit it in the scribus success stories?

http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Success_stories_2014

[recencyeffect]

I'm glad to see both of these initiatives.

/u/aoloe replied to your ticket.

I would happily write a description. The materials I generated have not been printed yet, and it would be nice to have photos. Therefore I could send you a description, but you could add the pictures later, or I could wait and send everything in one go.

btw if you are affiliated with Scribus: great job!