Drawing Lines and Python "For loops"

Here is another border, pretty useless but at least I am learnt a bit about Python - the 'for' loops need their following lines to be indented. Also helps to understand the x and y co-ordinates of Scribus

Introduces: CreateLine SetLineWidth SetLineColor and Python for loops.


 * 1) !/usr/bin/env python

from scribus import *

''' An exercise with loops and tested against 1.3.5. Uses

newDocument createLine setLineWidth setLineColor setFillShade createRect saveDocAs '''

Margins = (10, 10, 10, 10) if newDocument(PAPER_A4, Margins, PORTRAIT, 1, UNIT_POINTS, NOFACINGPAGES, FIRSTPAGERIGHT):

#some constants a = 5     #line width b="Blue" m=33     #Fill shade, integer 0-100 g60="Grey60" spx=30     #Start X   spy=30      #Start Y   a4w=595             #Width A4 getPageSize ? a4d=842            #depth A4 getPageSize ?

#Draw the lines d = createLine(spx-a/2,spy,a4w-30+a/2,spy) #Top setLineColor(g60, d)  setLineWidth(a, d)   e = createLine(spx,spy,spx,a4d-27)  #LH vertical setLineWidth(a, e)  setLineColor(g60, e)   f = createLine(a4w-30,spy,a4w-30,a4d-27)	#RH vertical setLineWidth(a, f)  setLineColor(g60, f)   g = createLine(spx-a/2,a4d-27,a4w-30+a/2,a4d-27)#Bottom setLineWidth(a, g)  setLineColor(g60, g)

#Draw the "holes" for i in range(0,int(770/10)): l = createRect(spx+5,spy+10+10*i,10,5) setFillShade(m,l) setLineColor(g60,l) for i in range(0,int(770/10)): k = createRect(a4w-45,spy+10+10*i,10,5) setFillShade(m,k) setLineColor(g60,k)

saveDocAs("Fancy_border.sla") #Make sure this is writable