[Scale-planning] Coder help with Design/Graphics

Josh Andler scislac at gmail.com
Mon Feb 13 05:31:20 UTC 2017


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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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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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