I needed to create a wall calendar and decided that this would be a good time to give Scribus a workout. Naturally I didn't want to create all the calendar pages manually so I looked into the scripting capabilities. Now, I should say that I'm not particularly familiar with Python although I do a fair amount of programming (Perl and PHP mostly). I found the Calendar.py script in the samples and with a little trial and error (mostly error) modified it to create a new 11" x 17" document and then create the 12 monthly pages with empty image elements ready for pictures and the calendar portions with all the correct numbering, etc. This gave me a good base document to which I was able to add images and all the customized pieces. The script certainly saved me a lot of work.
I'm just putting a few finishing touches on the script but wanted to know what the policy is on sharing scripts. I know that sharing is not a problem but wanted to know if this script is something that people would want? Is there some central "script repository" where it could go? (I admit, I didn't look all that hard but didn't see anything at scribus.org.uk) Would this be a useful addition to the sample scripts? I also had a few ideas for making it even more "general purpose". Specifically, I thought it might be nice to have a parameter that specifies the paper size, then have all the other coordinates and dimensions change to reflect that. I wanted a tabloid size document but there is no reason the same script couldn't make an A3 (or any other size) document. Thoughts or suggestions? -- Henry
