[Scale-planning] Coder help with Design/Graphics

Lei Zhang leiz at socallinuxexpo.org
Mon Feb 13 05:21:24 UTC 2017


Josh,

Any chance your version of Scribus can save a file that is readable by
Scribus 1.4.x?

On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 8:11 PM, Josh Andler <scislac at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry I didn't reply back here as well, here is an example file for
> the abstracts. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B66M6tvXugFoU0tVdFhabENObk0/view?usp=sharing
>
> I will see if I can do one as well for the grid, but that is probably
> too much to ask on short notice (the existing python doesn't do
> anything close to it).
>
> Cheers,
> Josh
>
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 12:07 PM, Lei Zhang <leiz at socallinuxexpo.org> wrote:
>> If you can take a few talk entries from our schedule and manually
>> create a Scribus document out of it, I can try to write a script to do
>> the same. The existing scripts you referred to are not directly useful
>> since they have many values hard coded for their conference.
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 12:37 PM, Josh Andler <scislac at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Lei,
>>>
>>> I'm hoping to have the ability to easily get data into Scribus
>>> documents. The best summary I can give is the biggest help would be if
>>> someone could dig in to the python and see that they understand it to
>>> help create our own custom scripts/tools.
>>>
>>> What's available appears to do something akin to our listing of talks
>>> & descriptions. This section of the program requires a whole bunch of
>>> manually applying styles (thankfully usually a once over, however time
>>> consuming process). If I can get text from a csv, either into
>>> pre-styled elements in a Scribus doc (or I don't know, perhaps the API
>>> allows setting that in the script) it would save a massive amount of
>>> time. Ideally, a modified version which would allow populating a table
>>> (for the visual grid schedule) would likely be the biggest help.
>>>
>>> As an offshoot thought, I'm also hoping to be able to use data
>>> importing to speed up generating the signs as well.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Josh
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 12:07 PM, Ilan Rabinovitch
>>> <ilan at socallinuxexpo.org> wrote:
>>>> Josh was hoping someone could take a stab at pushing the SCALE
>>>> presentation list into this code, and seeing what comes out the other
>>>> side. We're trying to see if this might reduce the level of effort on
>>>> his end for generating the schedule.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ilan Rabinovitch
>>>> Conference Chair
>>>> Southern California Linux Expo
>>>> 877-831-2569 x110 Voice
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>>>> ilan at linuxfests.org Email
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Lei Zhang <leiz at socallinuxexpo.org> wrote:
>>>>> It's not obvious what you are asking for. Presumably one takes their
>>>>> software, feed it a CSV file, and get a SLA file out of it. Are you
>>>>> looking for help generating the CSV file, or modify their software to
>>>>> tweak the SLA output to fit your requirements?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 9:22 PM, Josh Andler <scislac at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Hey All,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So, working on the printed program for SCALE every year is one of the
>>>>>> most challenging tasks for the graphics/design team. If there is
>>>>>> someone who is proficient in python and willing to learn a specific
>>>>>> application's API, you could probably save us days of work (especially
>>>>>> if changes happen close to the expo).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Basically, I need a way to pseudo-automate populating the daily
>>>>>> schedules for SCALE within Scribus. I spoke with a couple developers
>>>>>> for the application and was pointed to this repository:
>>>>>> https://gitorious.org/schedule-csv2scribus-rmll/schedule-csv2scribus-rmll?p=schedule-csv2scribus-rmll:schedule-csv2scribus-rmll.git;a=tree
>>>>>> ... which has the relevant files to generate pages within Scribus from
>>>>>> CSV files.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Anyone interested, willing to do some digging, and want to talk more
>>>>>> about it? It would be greatly appreciated if I could get a hand in
>>>>>> this area.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Josh
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