Import an image in the way office-programs do

This article is part of the Scripts series.

Some people have complained that they cannot import an image to scribus in the way they do it with the office-suites. In other words, they simply want to open a file and then the image should be placed on the page ready to be scaled and placed.

This script does this job.

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

""" 

Diese Skript importiert ein Bild und setzt es auf die akutelle Seite.
Der Bildrahmen wird dem Bild angepasst und in den nicht-proportionalen Modus
gesetzt, das heisst, beliebige Verzerrungen sind moeglich.

Um das Bild proportional zu vergroessern, die STRG-Taste beim Bearbeiten druecken.

Tested with scribus 1.3.3.3

Author: Konrad Stania

LICENSE:

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
"""



import sys


try:
    from scribus import *
    
except ImportError:
    print "This script only runs from within Scribus."
    sys.exit(1)
    
def main():
    #setRedraw(False) 

    pageX,pageY = getPageSize()
    ImageFileName = fileDialog("Image Import", "*","" ,True, False)
    Breite = pageX*0.8
    Hoehe = Breite
    
    if pageX >= pageY:
       Breite = pageY*0.8
       Hoehe = Breite

    ImageFrame = createImage(pageX/2 - Breite/2, pageY/2 - Hoehe/2, Breite, Hoehe)
    loadImage(ImageFileName, ImageFrame)
    setScaleImageToFrame(True, False,ImageFrame)
    setFillColor("None", ImageFrame)
    setLineColor("None", ImageFrame)
    scaleX,scaleY = getImageScale(ImageFrame)

    if scaleX > scaleY:
       Breite = Breite * scaleY / scaleX
       sizeObject(Breite, Hoehe, ImageFrame)
       setScaleImageToFrame(True, False,ImageFrame)

    if scaleX < scaleY:
       Hoehe = Hoehe * scaleX / scaleY
       setScaleImageToFrame(True, False,ImageFrame)
       sizeObject(Breite, Hoehe, ImageFrame)
 
    #setRedraw(True) 
    


    
if __name__ == '__main__':
    if haveDoc():
        main()
    else:
        messageBox("Image Import", "You need to have a document open <i>before</i> you can run this script succesfully.", ICON_INFORMATION)