[scribus] Python scripter - scribus.setFont() and scribus.setTextAlignment() ? -- Solution

[William Bader]

> Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 21:52:32 -0400
> From: gpittman at iglou.com
> To: scribus at lists.scribus.net
> Subject: [scribus] Python scripter - scribus.setFont() and scribus.setTextAlignment() ? -- Solution
> 
> I somehow lost this email from my client, but here it is copied from the
> Archives:
> *************************
> I am trying to run the following (very simple) script:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
> 
> import sys
> try:
>    import scribus
> 
> except ImportError:
>    print "This script only works from within Scribus"
>    sys.exit(1)
> 
> n = scribus.selectionCount()
> 
> for count in range(0,n):
>     textbox = scribus.getSelectedObject(count)
>     scribus.messageBox('Error:', textbox);
>     scribus.setFont('Arial Regular', textbox)
>     scribus.setTextAlignment(scribus.ALIGN_CENTERED, textbox)
>     scribus.setTextColor("White", textbox)
>     scribus.setFillColor("Red", textbox)
> 
> 
> However it fails after one iteration. The error message is:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<string>", line 8, in <module>
>   File "/home/.../SetTableHeading.py", line 17, in <module>
>     scribus.setFont('Arial Regular', textbox)
> NoValidObjectError: Cannot use empty string for object name when there is
> no selection
> 
> If I remove the function calls scribus.setFont() and
> scribus.setTextAlignment(), the script runs fine, but I dont know why...

Arial is a Windows font, and some Linux systems do not have it.
I have the code below in one of my test scripts.
    try:
        scribus.setFont("Arial Regular", txt)
    except:
        try:
            scribus.setFont("FreeSans Medium", txt)
        except:
            pass
Regards,William

 		 	   		  
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