Import an image in the way office-programs do

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.


 * 1) !/usr/bin/env python
 * 2) -*- 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. name 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 before you can run this script succesfully.", ICON_INFORMATION)