ScripterNG/Development

Development on the new scripter

Documentation

• How does the core (connecting Python to C++) work?
• How can I add new functions?
• How do I port code from older scripter to the new one?

Ideas for scripts and extensions

• connect/sync Scribus documents with a database or content management system
• Web_optimised_PDF create PDFs optimized for web
• spell checker
• MathML importer by converting to SVG
• HTML exporter
• Use PyUno to use OpenOffice filters to import any text format supported by OpenOffice
• fullscreen feature
• Python editor/console
• Macro recorder
• import richtext (RTF) with pyrtf-ng
• Autotext for quotation marks, stared text gets bold, space after comma and period, etc.
• OpenClipArt browser/importer. Same for Flickr/some creative commons media repository
• provide external control via XMLRPC or DBus
• wizards to create calendars, business cards, letters
• alternative properties palette (for experiments or special use cases)
• simple irc client dock window to get instant help and for live colaboration
• import plots from gnuplot as svg
• import CSV (or Excel with xlrd) into table
• import scanned images (Sane on Unix with Python Imaging Library)
• advanced search&replace with regular expressions
• an alternative story editor in fullscreen mode like PyRoom
• ghns-client (get hot new stuff) for ScribusStuff
• mail merge
• clippy ;-)

Requirements to implement above scripts

• call gettext importer api
• call pdf exporter
• event hooks (selection changed, document changed,

Other important TODO

• add i18n and integrate with rest of Scribus

Links

(will lookup my bookmarks)

• Integration of scripting languages into C++/Qt applications
• Examples about how other projects solved this topic
• InDesign scripting with JavaScript