Craig Bradney wrote: >On Sunday 27 February 2005 22:36, Gregory Pittman wrote: > > >>This is a revision of the scribalbuma4.py script. Once again, it uses >>1.2.2cvs as of 02.10 or after, so that you have access to the scripter >>command setScaleImageToFrame(). >> >>This one is designed for US Letter paper, and instead of putting eight >>pictures on a page, only four. If it was modified for A4 paper, you may >>need to shrink the pictures a little, but then you may also be able to >>put six pictures on a page and still leave some room. >> >>What I use this for is making travelogue-like output from Scribus. >>Example: I just went to London for a few days, and took 57 pictures. I >>stick them in a directory, then use scribalbum.py to create 15 pages of >>output, with labels for the individual pictures. >>I then add text frames to describe what's in the photos. Since some >>pictures may have been taken "sideways", I have enough space that I can >>rearrange and resize the pictures when I wish. Turning it into a PDF >>means I have the whole thing and the pictures in one file. >> >> > >you could try to get access to EXIF information and autorotate :) > > > If I had a lot of sideways pictures I would do this. What I generally do is use Gimp to rotate the sideways ones anyway (since I may just be looking at them in a viewer), so they're straight up coming into Scribus by the time I use scribalbum.py. All I do in Scribus is reposition and resize. There are lots of possibilities at this point -- making right and left facing pages with appropriate shifts. And certainly one would not have to have the same layout on every page. I think the point with this script anyway is that this just takes some of the tedium from a repetitive task. Loading the pictures into a document, especially when there are a lot of them, is quite boring. Scribus is really the "muscle-app" here, no question. As we have discussed before, we want to make sure we leave for Scribus the tasks that it does so effortlessly and so well. And besides, we all enjoy some hand-tweaking of our layout, or we wouldn't be interested in DTP, would we?
Greg
