[Scribus] album script (paperback)

[Gregory Pittman]

francesco fantoni wrote:

>I'm working on a modified version of scribalbum.py, tailored to produce
>a 6x9 in phot-book to be printed using Lulu POD service.
>It takes 2 pictures each page, sees if they're landscape or portrait
>oriented, check if you're in a left or right page and puts the frames
>into the page following a pre-determined scheme, reads original image
>size and resizes the pictures to fit into the frames.
>it works quite well at a first test, but i still have to had pictures
>labels. When it first displays the resulting document, pictures are not
>displayed with the correct size, but as it's actually as it is supposed
>to be, if you save and reopen the file everything appears ok.
>Do some of you know if it is possible to make the frame fit picture size
>using the python api?
>i attach the alpha version of my script
>(the size of the paper is larger than 6x9 to give some bleed, according
>to lulu staff suggestion)
>francesco
>  
>
Yes, I should have looked at lulu.py before I replied.  You are using 
scaleImage() instead of scaleImageToFrame().  I would think that if you 
are using a set page format you really want to use scaleImageToFrame().  
That would allow you to crop pictures and still get what you want.

Greg