[Scale-planning] Coder help with Design/Graphics

Lei Zhang leiz at socallinuxexpo.org
Mon Feb 13 06:04:56 UTC 2017


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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