[Scale-planning] Coder help with Design/Graphics

[Lei Zhang]

Yet the trunk releases keep warning users it is for testing purposes only...

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 1:15 PM, Ilan Rabinovitch
<ilan at socallinuxexpo.org> wrote:
> We've found over the last few years that the stable releases have odd bugs
> in them that make our life difficult at print time.  The answer from devs
> there has always to use trunk instead.
>
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> On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Lei Zhang <leiz at socallinuxexpo.org> wrote:
>>
>> I'll try that out, but please remember the danger of using trunk. The
>> version of scribus-trunk I install today may be able to read your
>> file, but what it saves may not be readable by the version of
>> scribus-trunk you installed last week. When you run into this problem
>> and upgrade tomorrow, that version of scribus-trunk may create files
>> that my install from today cannot read, and so on.
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 11:27 PM, Josh Andler <scislac at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > 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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