sla2pdf (new project by pypdfium2's maintainer)

[mara004]

Hello community,

I'd like to announce another PDF-related project which I'd written a while ago and have now finally decided to publish as well: sla2pdf

Scribus is an open-source desktop publishing software that can be used to create newsletters, magazines, etc.
It does not support batch export natively, so exporting many separate files manually can be a bit tedious, which is why I've written a command-line SLA to PDF exporter that makes use of Scribus's Python Scripter API.

With sla2pdf, you can simply run sla2pdf *.sla, which will generate PDFs for all SLA files in the current directory.
Apart from that, you may also embed sla2pdf in a Python project (see the project's readme for details).

I hope that Scribus will eventually get native command-line or GUI batch export capabilities and make its Python API available as a module that can be imported with system Python instead of being bundled into the app, so I can put sla2pdf in the attic eventually. In the meantime, however, I expect that it may come in handy for some users of Scribus.