[OSGeo-Edu] Geospatial Metadata ODT and Free GIS Book SampleChapter Layout

[Landon Blake]

Jorge and Alex,

I did my Scribus layout manually. I think Alex knows more about some of
Scribus' advanced features than I do. I would like to learn more about
how I can automatically layout text from external files.

Landon

P.S. - If the Spanish Free GIS Book is already done in LaTex then I
should also use this format for my Chapter. Do I need to get information
about the page layout from the Spanish team? I'm thinking of things like
font and margin size...


-----Original Message-----
From: edu_discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:edu_discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Alex Mandel
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 9:05 PM
To: Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas
Cc: edu_discuss at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Edu] Geospatial Metadata ODT and Free GIS Book
SampleChapter Layout

Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas wrote:
> 2008/2/6, Landon Blake <lblake at ksninc.com>:
>>
>> I have attached two PDFs with the sample Free GIS Chapter Layout that
I
>> created in Scribus. I would like to get some comments on the layout
from the
>> group. If there are no major objections to the layout then I will
complete
>> the following tasks:
>>
>> - Implement corrections and suggestions.
>>
>> - Layout the rest of the metadata chapter in Scribus and produce a
PDF.
>>
>>
>> I have also attached an ODT for Markus and any others that would like
to
>> review the chapter and provide comments.
>>
> 
> Hi Landon,
> 
> I like the layout, it's nice, but do you think (I don't know anything
> about Scribus) that transforming your texts to Scribus is "scalable"?
> Do you have your text in and ODT and Scribus consumes it?
> 
> At the Spanish Free GIS Book we have more or less 400 pages of text
> written in LaTeX and we don't think about changing a lot the layout
> apart from minor changes to improve the appearance.
> 
> Regards

Scribus can consume text files, pdfs and all sorts of other formats.
Theoretically you could build a scaffold scribus file and iterate 
through inserting a set of pdfs or text files into the proper tag.

The beauty of scribus is hitting refresh when the source documents and 
images have changed to see the new versions.

Alex
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