[Scale-planning] Coder help with Design/Graphics

Josh Andler scislac at gmail.com
Mon Feb 6 20:37:34 UTC 2017


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.
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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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