I should probably have told you should run that script as Extension Script... http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=scripter-faq
Olivier Le 21/12/10 18:50, Gregory Pittman a ?crit : > On 12/21/2010 12:24 PM, Gregory Pittman wrote: >> On 12/21/2010 09:38 AM, Olivier BERTEN wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>> Here is my first try at scripting Scribus: >>> http://www.selapa.net/scribus/Pantone.py >>> >>> If you run it as standalone (or within Scribus< 1.5 but it doesn't >>> really make sense), it let's you save Pantone's palettes in your >>> "swatches/locked" folder. >>> >>>> From within Scribus 1.5, it features importing individual colors to >>>> the >>> current document. It's limited to version 1.5 because earlier version >>> don't allow to define RGB colors, which is how color data are available >>> (with Lab, of course) for most of Pantone's palettes. >>> By the way, adding individual colors from libraries is a feature that >>> should be added to Scribus since you usually need process colors and a >>> few spot colors. You don't need to import the whole thousands of colors >>> in your document. And if you want to load a library, you loose all your >>> colors... >>> >>> Comments and suggestions welcome... >> >> I tried this on Fedora 14, and it seemed to download info Ok, but then >> was just spinning its wheels indefinitely. >> >> On killing Scribus and reopening, I have no additional color sets. >> Looking in .scribus, I can see a pantone directory with a number of PNGs >> and .js files, but swatches/locked is empty. >> >> I guess the thing to do if I can figure it out is to set up some >> messageBoxes to see what it is trying to do when it fails. > > I inserted a messageBox to find out the saving directory, and > immediately got a traceback indicating that scribus.messageBox didn't > work, so I noticed that there was no 'import scribus' line. > > Considering that there are several scribus.xxxx commands, I apparently > never invoked any of these previously. > > As I scan the script, I wonder if there has been more reliance on > various Qt commands than is really necessary -- for someone like me it > makes it harder to interpret, and may be a bit of overkill in general. > > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus >
