I know that parsing *.sla is not recommended since the structure might change.
Scripter is the preferred route.
But I'm still exploring (as an exercise) the option of parsing *.sla as explained in various articles I've read.
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Inspecting any *.sla file as an xml file (with Geany in Ubuntu) I can see the XML file structure.
I can see the more obvious attributes (object width, height etc.)
but what is POCOOR and COCOOR
are these draw vectors?
http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/File_Format_Specification_for_Scribus_1.4
POCOOR
coordinates of the object shape
POCOOR="0 0 0 0 528 0 528 0 528 0 528 0 528 42.5197 528 42.5197 528 42.5197 528 42.5197 0 42.5197 0 42.5197 0 42.5197 0 42.5197 0 0 0 0 "
COCOOR="0 0 0 0 528 0 528 0 528 0 528 0 528 42.5197 528 42.5197 528 42.5197 528 42.5197 0 42.5197 0 42.5197 0 42.5197 0 42.5197 0 0 0 0 "
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And what is the indexing protocol for
BACKITEM
BACKPAGE
NEXTITEM
NEXTPAGE
the default value seems to be -1.
but when there is a numeric index what object addressing scheme does it refer to?