mac-friendly

• various bug fix
• python3 branch made default, since Scribus 1.6.x is now stable. older branch is still available as archive.
• great addition of a MacOS compatible GUI. Many thanks to kmcreative for this nice addition to ScribusGenerator.

3.0

Update ScribusGenerator for recent Scribus (1.5.6+):

• fix various bugs introduced in the Python3 porting (blank page, skips in merge mode, use variables in filenames)
• added support for JSON data format, on top of CSV.
• added requested fill_count feature : A dedicated variable %VAR_COUNT% can be used anywhere in the file output option that will be substituted with the position of the related data entry in the data file. Force that count figure to have a specific length by setting the OUTPUTCOUNT_FILL accordingly.

What's Changed

• GUI close and doc update by @berteh in #168
• Fix for Python 3.9 by @hynekcer in #172
• python3/backend: Open/write files in utf-8, fixes upstream #171 by @SunStrom in #175
• Python3 dynamic CSV file encodings by @SunStrom in #176
• Add support for JSON by @S1SYPHOS in #184
• Fix various typos by @luzpaz in #188
• Compatible with scribus 1.5.7 by @ta-ichihashi in #187

New Contributors

• @hynekcer made their first contribution in #172
• @SunStrom made their first contribution in #175
• @luzpaz made their first contribution in #188
• @ta-ichihashi made their first contribution in #187

Full Changelog: 2.9.1...3.0

doc update

What's Changed

• Update README.md by @UltraSalem in #160
• Update README.md by @4n70w4 in #161

New Contributors

• @UltraSalem made their first contribution in #160
• @4n70w4 made their first contribution in #161

Full Changelog: 2.9...2.9.1

stable for Python 2.7

last release for python 2.7. next will be for python 3.0 only.

What's Changed

• Increase robustness of icon file loading by @mikini in #128
• Elaborate on script dir installation by @mikini in #126
• Set initialdir variable on tkFileDialog calls by @mikini in #125
• Creating composer.json by @S1SYPHOS in #133

New Contributors

• @mikini made their first contribution in #128

Full Changelog: 2.8.1...2.9

bits by bits

fixing small bugs and improvements

• support for CSV with empty lines #90
• support for templates using more records as the data provides #123
• indent of generated SLA code for more readability #122

Please note the %VAR_NEXT-RECORD% needs to be replaced by %SG_NEXT-RECORD% since last version, since it was not a "variable" in the right meaning, thanks #118 for the suggestion.

2.8

small improvements:

• code layout #124
• %SG_NEXT-RECORD% replaces %VAR_NEXT-RECORD% #118
• added utilities scripts #116

sweet

fixing some bugs reported by users. Thanks for your feedback !

• including subdirectories in dynamic file output name
• extending limit of linked frames in generated document
• syntax update for Python 3.6 (still compatible with > 2.7)
  and more.

next-record

New feature to display multiple data records on a single page, and some bug fix.

better UI

better user interaction (cross platform loging and runtime error messages)

stable for Scribus 1.5.2

Various bug fix and improvements to make ScribusGenerator work out of the box in Scribus 1.5.2.