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==New Version Fixed for 1.4.3/1.5.0==
==New Version Fixed for 1.4.3/1.5.0==
Aside from fixing it so that it works, I have also changed the import syntax to the preferred <code>import scribus</code> rather than <code>from scribus import *</code>.
Something to note is that when you click the '''Align''' button, the work is done, but you don't see the results until you click '''Done''' &ndash; this is because the document isn't redrawn until then.
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==Original Version==
==Original Version==
I'm not sure how well this version worked originally, but at any rate it no longer worked in 1.5.0. I'm leaving it here for reference purposes, as well as acknowledging the original work done.
I'm not sure how well this version worked originally, but at any rate it no longer worked in 1.5.0. I'm leaving it here for reference purposes, as well as acknowledging the original work done.

Revision as of 04:16, 26 January 2014

This article is part of the Scripts series.

Under Scribus' "Windows" menu, there is a very nice option called "Align and Distribute". This lets you align items on the page, for example centering them horizontally or vertically, aligning them to the left margin, etc. However, I have not found any way to align an image in its frame.

This script will give you a dialog window, allowing you to select on of 9 alignments:

  • Top Left, Top Center, Top Right
  • Middle Left, Middle Center, Middle Right
  • Bottom Left, Bottom Center, Bottom Right

When you press the "Align" button, it will align all the selected images in their frames, using the alignment option you selected. It has been tested in Scribus 1.3.3.9 and 1.3.4. It requires Tkinter to be properly installed.

Of course, if you need more fine-tuned adjustments than these 9 options, you should probably use the Image Properties toolbar to manually set the X and Y offsets of the image in its frame.

See also this script (Image Wizard: Scale and Align an Image) which can scale and align images.

Warning: You can leave the script dialog open, and continue to process more images. However, due to a multi-threading bug with Python scripts in Scribus, if you attempt to launch another script while this one is running, Scribus will probably crash and you'll lose your document. So be careful, and save often!

New Version Fixed for 1.4.3/1.5.0

Aside from fixing it so that it works, I have also changed the import syntax to the preferred import scribus rather than from scribus import *.

Something to note is that when you click the Align button, the work is done, but you don't see the results until you click Done – this is because the document isn't redrawn until then.

#!/usr/bin/python

import scribus
 
try:
    from Tkinter import *
    from tkFont import Font
except ImportError:
    print "This script requires Python's Tkinter properly installed."
    scribus.messageBox('Script failed',
               'This script requires Python\'s Tkinter properly installed.',
               scribus.ICON_CRITICAL)
    sys.exit(1)
 
 
 
class TkImageAlignmentWizard(Frame):
    """ GUI interface for aligning an image in a frame"""
 
    def __init__(self, master=None):
        """ Setup the dialog """
        # refernce to the localization dictionary
        self.key = 'English'
        Frame.__init__(self, master)
        self.grid()
        self.master.resizable(0, 0)
        self.master.title('Scribus Image Alignment Wizard')
        #define widgets
        # alignment options
        self.alignLabel = Label(self, text='Select alignment:')
        self.alignVar = StringVar()
        self.alignRadio1 = Radiobutton(self, text='', variable=self.alignVar, value="TL")
        self.alignRadio2 = Radiobutton(self, text='', variable=self.alignVar, value="TC")
        self.alignRadio3 = Radiobutton(self, text='', variable=self.alignVar, value="TR")
        self.alignRadio4 = Radiobutton(self, text='', variable=self.alignVar, value="ML")
        self.alignRadio5 = Radiobutton(self, text='', variable=self.alignVar, value="MC")
        self.alignRadio6 = Radiobutton(self, text='', variable=self.alignVar, value="MR")
        self.alignRadio7 = Radiobutton(self, text='', variable=self.alignVar, value="BL")
        self.alignRadio8 = Radiobutton(self, text='', variable=self.alignVar, value="BC")
        self.alignRadio9 = Radiobutton(self, text='', variable=self.alignVar, value="BR")
        self.alignButton = Button(self, text='Align', command=self.alignImage)
        # closing/running
        self.doneButton = Button(self, text="Done", command=self.quit)
        # setup values
        self.alignRadio5.select()
        # make layout
        self.columnconfigure(0, pad=0)
        currRow = 0
        self.alignLabel.grid(column=0, row=currRow, columnspan=3)
        currRow += 1
        self.alignRadio1.grid(column=0, row=currRow)
        self.alignRadio2.grid(column=1, row=currRow)
        self.alignRadio3.grid(column=2, row=currRow)
        currRow += 1
        self.alignRadio4.grid(column=0, row=currRow)
        self.alignRadio5.grid(column=1, row=currRow)
        self.alignRadio6.grid(column=2, row=currRow)
        currRow += 1
        self.alignRadio7.grid(column=0, row=currRow)
        self.alignRadio8.grid(column=1, row=currRow)
        self.alignRadio9.grid(column=2, row=currRow)
        currRow += 1
        self.alignButton.grid(column=0, row=currRow, columnspan=3)
        self.doneButton.grid(column=3, row=currRow, columnspan=3)
 
    def alignImage(self):
        if scribus.haveDoc():
            nbrSelected = scribus.selectionCount()
            objList = []
            for i in range(nbrSelected):
                objList.append(scribus.getSelectedObject(i))
            for i in range(nbrSelected):
                try:
                    obj = objList[i]
                    frameW, frameH = scribus.getSize(obj)
                    saveScaleX, saveScaleY = scribus.getImageScale(obj)
                    scribus.setScaleImageToFrame(1, 0, obj)
                    fullScaleX, fullScaleY = scribus.getImageScale(obj)
                    scribus.setScaleImageToFrame(0, 0, obj)
                    scribus.scaleImage(saveScaleX, saveScaleY, obj)
                    imageW = frameW * (saveScaleX / fullScaleX)
                    imageH = frameH * (saveScaleY / fullScaleY)
                    imageX = 0.0
                    imageY = 0.0
 
                    if self.alignVar.get()[0] == "T":
                        imageY = 0.0
                    elif self.alignVar.get()[0] == "M":
                        imageY = (frameH - imageH) / 2.0
                    elif self.alignVar.get()[0] == "B":
                        imageY = (frameH - imageH)
                    if self.alignVar.get()[1] == "L":
                        imageX = 0.0
                    elif self.alignVar.get()[1] == "C":
                        imageX = (frameW - imageW) / 2.0
                    elif self.alignVar.get()[1] == "R":
                        imageX = (frameW - imageW)
 
                    scribus.setImageOffset(imageX, imageY, obj)
                    scribus.docChanged(1)
                    scribus.setRedraw(True)
                except:
                    nothing = "nothing"
 
    def quit(self):
        self.master.destroy()
 
 
def main():
    """ Application/Dialog loop with Scribus sauce around """
    try:
        root = Tk()
        app = TkImageAlignmentWizard(root)
        root.mainloop()
    finally:
        if scribus.haveDoc():
            scribus.redrawAll()
 
if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Original Version

I'm not sure how well this version worked originally, but at any rate it no longer worked in 1.5.0. I'm leaving it here for reference purposes, as well as acknowledging the original work done.

Save this script with a filename of Image_AlignInFrame.py, for example.

from scribus import *

try:
    from Tkinter import *
    from tkFont import Font
except ImportError:
    print "This script requires Python's Tkinter properly installed."
    messageBox('Script failed',
               'This script requires Python\'s Tkinter properly installed.',
               ICON_CRITICAL)
    sys.exit(1)



class TkImageAlignmentWizard(Frame):
    """ GUI interface for aligning an image in a frame"""

    def __init__(self, master=None):
        """ Setup the dialog """
        # refernce to the localization dictionary
        self.key = 'English'
        Frame.__init__(self, master)
        self.grid()
        self.master.resizable(0, 0)
        self.master.title('Scribus Image Alignment Wizard')
        #define widgets
        # alignment options
        self.alignLabel = Label(self, text='Select alignment:')
        self.alignVar = StringVar()
        self.alignRadio1 = Radiobutton(self, text='', variable=self.alignVar, value="TL")
        self.alignRadio2 = Radiobutton(self, text='', variable=self.alignVar, value="TC")
        self.alignRadio3 = Radiobutton(self, text='', variable=self.alignVar, value="TR")
        self.alignRadio4 = Radiobutton(self, text='', variable=self.alignVar, value="ML")
        self.alignRadio5 = Radiobutton(self, text='', variable=self.alignVar, value="MC")
        self.alignRadio6 = Radiobutton(self, text='', variable=self.alignVar, value="MR")
        self.alignRadio7 = Radiobutton(self, text='', variable=self.alignVar, value="BL")
        self.alignRadio8 = Radiobutton(self, text='', variable=self.alignVar, value="BC")
        self.alignRadio9 = Radiobutton(self, text='', variable=self.alignVar, value="BR")
        self.alignButton = Button(self, text='Align', command=self.alignImage)
        # closing/running
        self.doneButton = Button(self, text="Done", command=self.quit)
        # setup values
        self.alignRadio5.select()
        # make layout
        self.columnconfigure(0, pad=0)
        currRow = 0
        self.alignLabel.grid(column=0, row=currRow, columnspan=3)
        currRow += 1
        self.alignRadio1.grid(column=0, row=currRow)
        self.alignRadio2.grid(column=1, row=currRow)
        self.alignRadio3.grid(column=2, row=currRow)
        currRow += 1
        self.alignRadio4.grid(column=0, row=currRow)
        self.alignRadio5.grid(column=1, row=currRow)
        self.alignRadio6.grid(column=2, row=currRow)
        currRow += 1
        self.alignRadio7.grid(column=0, row=currRow)
        self.alignRadio8.grid(column=1, row=currRow)
        self.alignRadio9.grid(column=2, row=currRow)
        currRow += 1
        self.alignButton.grid(column=0, row=currRow, columnspan=3)
        self.doneButton.grid(column=3, row=currRow, columnspan=3)

    def alignImage(self):
        if haveDoc():
            nbrSelected = selectionCount()
            objList = []
            for i in range(nbrSelected):
                objList.append(getSelectedObject(i))
            for i in range(nbrSelected):
                try:
                    obj = objList[i]
                    frameW = getProperty(obj, "width")
                    frameH = getProperty(obj, "height")
                    saveScaleX = getProperty(obj, "imageXScale")
                    saveScaleY = getProperty(obj, "imageYScale")
                    setScaleImageToFrame(True, False, obj)
                    fullScaleX = getProperty(obj, "imageXScale")
                    fullScaleY = getProperty(obj, "imageYScale")
                    setScaleImageToFrame(False, False, obj)
                    scaleImage(saveScaleX, saveScaleY, obj)
                    imageW = frameW * (saveScaleX / fullScaleX)
                    imageH = frameH * (saveScaleY / fullScaleY)
                    imageX = 0.0
                    imageY = 0.0
                    
                    if self.alignVar.get()[0] == "T":
                        imageY = 0.0
                    elif self.alignVar.get()[0] == "M":
                        imageY = (frameH - imageH) / 2.0 / saveScaleY
                    elif self.alignVar.get()[0] == "B":
                        imageY = (frameH - imageH) / saveScaleY
                    if self.alignVar.get()[1] == "L":
                        imageX = 0.0
                    elif self.alignVar.get()[1] == "C":
                        imageX = (frameW - imageW) / 2.0 / saveScaleX
                    elif self.alignVar.get()[1] == "R":
                        imageX = (frameW - imageW) / saveScaleX

                    setProperty(obj, "imageXOffset", imageX)
                    setProperty(obj, "imageYOffset", imageY)
                    docChanged(1)
                    setRedraw(True)
                except:
                    nothing = "nothing"

    def quit(self):
        self.master.destroy()

		
def main():
    """ Application/Dialog loop with Scribus sauce around """
    try:
        root = Tk()
        app = TkImageAlignmentWizard(root)
        root.mainloop()
    finally:
        if haveDoc():
            redrawAll()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()