[scribus] Automatic creation of product catalgue

[Gregory Pittman]

Stefano Danzi wrote:
>
> I need to automatically create e product catalgoue.
>
> I've a folder with fotos having mixed resolution (same 1700 dpi, other 
> 1200 dpi ecc ecc). Each photo, if printed at the correct resolution, 
> show an object at scale of 1:1 (real dimension, dimension of my items 
> goes from 1cm to 10 cm).
>
> I need to print a catalog that show all items with his real dimension, 
> and numbers of items for row depends on dimensions of object.
>
> There is a script that do something similar?
> I found scriptalbuma4.py but have a fixed layout (2 items on each row, 
> and I need multiple items for row depending on dimensions) and don't 
> preserve reals image dimensions.
>

Stefano Danzi wrote:
> /How I can call "Adjust Frame to Image/" function from a script? Under 
> scripting references there are nothing about this.
>
If you check the InfoBox.py script, you will see some things that will 
help. There is no Adjust Frame to Image in Scripter.
Use the PIL like this:

    try:
        from PIL import Image
    except ImportError:
        print "Unable to import the Python Imaging Library module."
        sys.exit(1)

then if you go farther down in InfoBox.py you will find:

        imageload = scribus.fileDialog('Load image','Images(*.jpg *.png 
*.tif *.JPG *.PNG *.jpeg *.JPEG *.TIF)',haspreview=1)
            im = Image.open(imageload)
            xsize, ysize = im.size
        new_height = float(ysize)/float(xsize)*new_width # this adjust 
height according to the column width
        new_image = scribus.createImage(new_left, float(new_top), 
new_width, float(new_height),framename)
        scribus.loadImage(imageload, new_image)

where you see to use Image.open, then .size to get the dimensions of 
your image. In the case of InfoBox.py, the frame dimensions are limited 
to a fixed width based on the column that the image is placed in.

So you should be able to use these methods to accomplish your task. If 
your desire is for a full-size frame according to image size, then 
adjusting scale should be unnecessary.

Greg