[Scribus] album script (paperback)

[jack wallen]

OT I know - be careful with Lulu. if you take a look on writers net
(www.writers.net) and read about Lulu - you'll find some really serious
issues. 

just thought i'd pass along the warning.

On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 13:12, Gregory Pittman wrote:
> 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
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