[Scale-planning] Coder help with Design/Graphics

Josh Andler scislac at gmail.com
Mon Feb 13 07:27:49 UTC 2017


Ubuntu 16.10 is what I'm using with this PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~scribus/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

I use trunk... (since that is probably relevant)

On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 10:04 PM, Lei Zhang <leiz at socallinuxexpo.org> wrote:
> No version of Ubuntu/Debian provides 1.5.x as of this writing. [1] [2]
> What distro provides 1.5.x? I can make a VM.
>
> [1] http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=scribus&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all
> [2] https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=scribus&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all
>
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 9:31 PM, Josh Andler <scislac at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Lei,
>>
>> Yikes... not possible. They literally have one option in their Save As
>> dialog (document). What platform/OS are you on? If we can't get you on
>> a more recent build I can recreate the doc with an older version of
>> Scribus.
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 9:21 PM, Lei Zhang <leiz at socallinuxexpo.org> wrote:
>>> 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
>>>>>>> 818-442-1865 Mobile
>>>>>>> ilan at linuxfests.org Email
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ---
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>>>>>>> LinuxFests.org's upcoming events:
>>>>>>> * SeaGL  - Nov 11-12, 2016
>>>>>>> * SCALE 15x - March 2-5, 2017 - Pasadena, CA
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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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