[scribus] Introduction & Printing guides

[José Antonio Rocha]

Copy-paste script in (
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.scribus/39489) led to
some bad-formated
lines. The true script is:

#!/usr/bin/python

"""
create "printable" guides and page margins for a draft
@author: ale rimoldi
@version: 1.0 / 20110901
@copyright (c) 2011 alessandro rimoldi under the mit license
           http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html
"""
import sys
try:
   import scribus
except ImportError:
   print "This script only works from within Scribus"
   sys.exit(1)

page = scribus.getPageSize()
margin = scribus.getPageMargins()

layer = scribus.getActiveLayer()

if ('guides' in scribus.getLayers()) :
    scribus.setActiveLayer('guides')
else:
    scribus.createLayer('guides')

# add the page margins
rectangle = scribus.createRect(margin[1], margin[0], (page[0] - margin[1] -
margin[2]), (page[1] - margin[0] - margin[3]))
scribus.setFillColor('none', rectangle)
scribus.setLineColor('Blue', rectangle)
scribus.setLineWidth(0.4, rectangle)

# add horizontal and vertical guides
for item in scribus.getHGuides():
    line = scribus.createLine(0, item , page[0], item)
    scribus.setLineColor('Black', line)
    scribus.setLineWidth(0.6, line)
    scribus.setLineStyle(scribus.LINE_DASHDOT, line)

for item in scribus.getVGuides():
    line = scribus.createLine(item, 0 , item, page[0])
    scribus.setLineColor('Black', line)
    scribus.setLineWidth(0.6, line)
    scribus.setLineStyle(scribus.LINE_DASHDOT, line)

# add a "crossed frame" for missing images
for item in scribus.getAllObjects():
    if scribus.getObjectType(item) == 'ImageFrame':
        image = scribus.getImageFile(item)
        if image == '':
            pos = scribus.getPosition(item)
            size = scribus.getSize(item)
            rectangle = scribus.createRect(pos[0], pos[1], size[0],size[1])
        scribus.setFillColor('none', rectangle)
            scribus.setLineColor('Black', rectangle)
            scribus.setLineWidth(0.4, rectangle)
            line = scribus.createLine(pos[0], pos[1] , pos[0] + size[0],
pos[1] + size[1])
         scribus.setLineColor('Black', line)
            scribus.setLineWidth(0.4, line)
            line = scribus.createLine(pos[0], pos[1] + size[1], pos[0] +
size[0], pos[1])
        scribus.setLineColor('Black', line)
            scribus.setLineWidth(0.4, line)

scribus.setActiveLayer(layer)

2012/10/12 Gabriel Grosso <ggrosso.dg at gmail.com>

> Hi a.l.e,
>
> thanks for such a quick answer. We'll be in contact at #scribus.
> Thanks again!
>
>
> On 10/12/2012 11:06 AM, a.l.e wrote:
>
>> hi gabriel,
>>
>> here a developer called a.l.e speaking ...
>>
>>> Hi all. I'm a 27 years old graphic design student based in Argentina, at
>>> the University of Art and Design of Oberá, state of Misiones. I use
>>> GNU/Linux from redhat 4.8 (i guess the first attempt to bring gnu to the
>>> masses) and now my main OS is Archlinux. I work entirely with open source
>>> software Gimp, Inkscape, Blender, Scribus. Well, enough of introductions
>>> and go to the point. I need to do some sketches for a project i'm about to
>>> make, and i'm wondering if there's a way of "print" the guides and the "no
>>> printing objects" to a PDF file (maybe to print it in a greaseproof paper).
>>> I do some research and came to this script developed by a user called
>>> a.l.e. (http://permalink.gmane.org/**gmane.comp.graphics.scribus/**39489<http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.scribus/39489>
>>> ).
>>>
>>> Now in Scribus, importing it and executing throws me an error:
>>>
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>
>>>   File "", line 8, in
>>>
>>>   File "/home/gabo/guides.py", line 30
>>>
>>>     scribus.setFillColor('Black', rectangle) scribus.setLineColor('Blue',
>>>
>>>                                                    ^
>>>
>>> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>>
>>> I want to know if somebody has used it before or has another turnaround
>>> to work with printed guides.
>>> Well, thanks in advance and sorry about my English.
>>>
>>>
>> i can have a look at it this evening CET...
>>
>> i think that -- at the end -- frédéric continued his work and "published"
>> a finished script (which also printed crossed boxes for image fiels, iirc)
>>
>> i will be at home between 19 and 21 swiss time. you can ping me on irc...
>> #scribus on irc.freenode.net
>> http://wiki.scribus.net/**canvas/Special:WebChat<http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Special:WebChat>
>>
>> ciao
>> a.l.e
>>
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