[scribus-dev] a couple of new scripter commands

[Gregory Pittman]

Something I mused about today was the idea that, separate from how 
master pages work, one might want to make a copy of an object to a 
number of pages, maybe all, maybe odd pages, maybe a list of pages.

So I was going to see if I could write a script for this. It turns out 
there are not sufficient commands to do this. About the closest is 
duplicateObject(), but this makes a single copy on top of the original.

I set about making 2 new commands, copyObject() and pasteObject(), each 
of which is a modified version of duplicateObject(). I've got them 
working, at least for a single selected object, not multiple objects, 
and not groups (have to work on that issue -- more swimming around the 
plugin).

The concept as I envisioned it would work thusly in a script:

Test for document and a selected object (maybe have to test for a single 
selected object).
copyObject().
Value dialog for keyword (all, odd, even) or list of page numbers.
Parse the value(s).
use gotoPage().
pasteObject().
Loop as needed, and useful to skip the object's original page (if 'all' 
is specified, for example).

I wanted to see if anyone else felt this was of general interest, 
perhaps using these commands for other purposes, in other ways.

Greg