Hm... Great, Louis! The Idea behing auto cover in EasyPose is to create a .sla file, following the settings of the pages, and inserting (or not) elements like image frames, text frames for title, author, it would work more like a script plugin, so the user can edit it inside scribus and do whatever he wants to... so the .sla file goes with color charts, trim and fold marks, and so ^_^
That was the idea, But it would be just an option, Scribus could manage it it self I think... what could be good too... ^_^v Regards! Louis Desjardins escreveu: > Hi list, > > The recent post from Celso Junior on automated spine in "EasyPose", gave > me an idea. > > Wouldn't it be a nice feature to have at creative level as well? I mean, > within Scribus. More often than not there is some graphic involved on > that part of the cover, such as the book title, author, collection, > publisher's logo and so on. This always has to be done by hand afaik. > > It would be nice to have this done with input values like with text > frames that you can change at will. I would see it in the proposed > Document layout in the "New document" dialog: "Book cover". Would be > nice if it was as simple as modifying the size of a frame but this would > apply to a smaller (narrower) page in a 3-page document (in the order, > from left to right, back cover, spine, front cover). Then, if any of the > 2 input values change, the spine automatically changes too. If there are > already some elements there, Scribus could tell the user that there was > a change that requires attention. The program could offer such option as > center automatically all elements in the new spine width (if it's > larger) or shrink them to fit the new width. As I see it, one could also > skip the 2 fields with a check box and enter a width value, depending > upon the info available. And automated behavior could also be skipped to > let users do just what they want. > > BTW, the 3-fold option could be given those extra fields. And if we go > further, we could simply give all elements the possibility to be of > different width, taking then care of the issue with folding. Not all > panels of a pamphlet are necessarily equal. > > How does that sound? > > Louis > > >
