A Standard Form with Barcodes and Custom Entries

Here are the Scribus operations you will find examples for in this script:

About This Script
Having made a script for generating Code 39 barcodes, I wanted to take this one step further, and use that script inside a larger script that creates a form that I use which has barcodes on it.

Here it is: I might add that I'm getting feedback from the nursing staff amazed at how legible my notes are. I've also had other doctors ask me how I did this. With enough interest I may work on the hospital to officially add Scribus to the hospital's desktop computers – I've managed to do this for my own use even though technically I don't have administrative rights to save programs.

Something else I've done in selected situations is to take screengrabs of selected brain scan images, then add them with image frames to the page, when this seems useful. Very easy of course with Scribus.

consultation.py
One change you might consider in your own form script compared with this one is to not exit when a "bad" character is entered for the barcode. For my purposes, I felt that if I did make a mistake, I would just delete the page and start all over.

If you happen to try out this script, notice that the valueDialogs ask for 2 bits of info each, separated by white space.


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 * 1) consultation.py
 * 2) created 2010.08.10   © Gregory Pittman, 2010

import scribus import sys import string

def makebars(relx, rely, height, S, humanread): origx = relx code = startstop

for x in S[0:]: if x.isdigit: xnum = int(x) code = code + code39[xnum] elif ((ord(x) > 64) and (ord(x) < 91)):  # ord(character) yields the ascii value xnum = ord(x) - 55 code = code + code39[xnum] elif (ord(x) == 32):                     #  space code = code + code39[36] elif ((ord(x) == 36) or (ord(x) == 37)): #  $ and % xnum = ord(x) + 1 code = code + code39[xnum] elif ((ord(x) > 44) and (ord(x) < 48)):  #  -. /           xnum = ord(x) - 6 code = code + code39[xnum] elif (ord(x) == 43):                     #  + code = code + code39[42] elif (ord(x) == 42): code = code + startstop              #  * (adding for completeness) else: scribus.messageBox('OOPS!',S + '\nCode 39 does not encode this character: '+x,scribus.ICON_NONE,button1=scribus.BUTTON_OK) sys.exit(1)

code = code + startstop

for y in code[0:]: if y == 'n': relx = relx + narrow/2 d = scribus.createLine(relx,rely,relx,rely + height,) #narrow line scribus.setLineWidth(narrow, d)           scribus.setLineColor(b, d)            scribus.setFillColor(b, d)            relx = relx + narrow + narrow/2 elif y == 'w': relx = relx + wide/2 d = scribus.createLine(relx,rely,relx,rely + height,) #wide line scribus.setLineWidth(wide, d)           scribus.setLineColor(b, d)            scribus.setFillColor(b, d)            relx = relx + narrow + wide/2 elif y == 's':                                     #for wide space relx = relx + wide

if (humanread == 'Yes'): t = scribus.createText(origx, rely+height+3, relx - origx, 15) scribus.setText(S, t)       scribus.setFont("DejaVu Sans Book", t)        scribus.setFontSize(8, t)        scribus.setTextAlignment(scribus.ALIGN_CENTERED, t)    return

code39 = ['nnswwn','wnsnnw','nwsnnw','wwsnnn','nnswnw','wnswnn','nwswnn','nnsnww','wnsnwn','nwsnwn'] code39.extend(['wnnsnw','nwnsnw','wwnsnn','nnwsnw','wnwsnn','nwwsnn','nnnsww','wnnswn','nwnswn']) code39.extend(['nnwswn','wnnnsw','nwnnsw','wwnnsn','nnwnsw','wnwnsn','nwwnsn','nnnwsw','wnnwsn']) code39.extend(['nwnwsn','nnwwsn','wsnnnw','nswnnw','wswnnn','nsnwnw','wsnwnn','nswwnn'])
 * 1) I'm using 'n' to denote a narrow line, 'w' for wide line, 's' for wide space
 * 2) if a space is not wide then a narrow space is created
 * 3) next add the codes for A-Z

startstop = 'nsnwwn' narrow = 1.0  # narrow line width wide = 2.2   # wide line width b="Black"    #line color ypos = 205.68

if (scribus.newDocument(scribus.PAPER_LETTER,(10,10,10,10),scribus.PORTRAIT,1,scribus.UNIT_POINTS,scribus.PAGE_1,0,1)): #first, we'll make the basic layout for the page L1 = scribus.createLine(25.51,161.57,578.27,161.57) scribus.setLineWidth(0.6,L1) scribus.setLineColor(b,L1) L2 = scribus.createLine(25.51,183.42,578.27,183.42) scribus.setLineWidth(0.6,L2) scribus.setLineColor(b,L2) L4 = scribus.createLine(298.64,161.57,298.64,747.43) scribus.setLineWidth(0.6,L4) scribus.setLineColor(b,L4) while (ypos<750): L3 = scribus.createLine(25.51,ypos,578.27,ypos) scribus.setLineWidth(0.2,L3) scribus.setLineColor(b,L3) ypos=ypos+20.84 T1 = scribus.createText(28,96,120,15) scribus.setText("SCRIBUS MEDICAL CENTER", T1) scribus.setTextAlignment(scribus.ALIGN_LEFT, T1) scribus.setFont("DejaVu Sans Book", T1) scribus.setFontSize(8, T1) T2 = scribus.createText(28,124,148,25) scribus.setText("PHYSICIAN'S ORDERS", T2) scribus.setTextAlignment(scribus.ALIGN_LEFT, T2) scribus.setFont("DejaVu Sans Book", T2) scribus.setFontSize(12, T2) T3 = scribus.createText(25.22,168.29,272.28,16.71) scribus.setText("PHYSICIAN'S ORDERS", T3) scribus.setTextAlignment(scribus.ALIGN_CENTERED, T3) scribus.setFont("DejaVu Sans Book", T3) scribus.setFontSize(11, T3) T4 = scribus.createText(297.75,168.29,279.78,16.71) scribus.setText("PROGRESS NOTES", T4) scribus.setTextAlignment(scribus.ALIGN_CENTERED, T4) scribus.setFont("DejaVu Sans Book", T4) scribus.setFontSize(11, T4) makebars(34,44,30,"5800A",'Yes') # next we get down to getting info about the particular patient names = scribus.valueDialog('Last Name + First Name','Last and first names are\n(Separate with white space only) ') name = names.split last_name = string.upper(name[0]) first_name = string.upper(name[1]) age_DOB = scribus.valueDialog('Age + DOB','Age and DOB (MM/DD/YYYY) are \n(Separate with white space only)') ageDOB = age_DOB.split age = ageDOB[0] DOB = ageDOB[1] adm_hospnum = scribus.valueDialog('Admit Date + Hospital Number','Admission Date (MM/DD/YYYY) and\n 10-digit Hospital No.\n(Separate with white space only)') adm_hosp = adm_hospnum.split adm_Date = adm_hosp[0] hosp_number = adm_hosp[1] MRN = hosp_number[:-3]

L = scribus.createText(400, 83, 182, 47) scribus.setText(last_name+", "+first_name+"\n"+hosp_number+"         "+adm_Date+"\n"+DOB+"   "+age+"Y     "+MRN, L)    scribus.setTextAlignment(scribus.ALIGN_LEFT, L)    scribus.setFont("DejaVu Sans Book", L)    scribus.setLineSpacing(10,L) scribus.setFillColor("White",L) scribus.setFontSize(8, L)   scribus.setTextDistances(5,0,7,0,L) textLength = len(last_name)+len(first_name)+2 scribus.selectText(0,textLength,L) scribus.setFont("DejaVu Sans Bold",L) makebars(401,125,24,hosp_number,"No") scribus.createLayer("Notes") scribus.setActiveLayer("Notes") N = scribus.createText(299.01, 191.3, 280.36, 557.2) scribus.setText("NEUROLOGY CONSULTATION", N)   scribus.setTextAlignment(scribus.ALIGN_LEFT, N)    scribus.setFont("DejaVu Sans Book", N)    scribus.setLineSpacing(15,N) scribus.setFillColor("White",N) scribus.setFontSize(11, N)   scribus.setTextDistances(5,0,0,0,N) scribus.setRedraw(1) scribus.redrawAll

else: scribus.messageBox('OOPS!','Failed to open a new document',scribus.ICON_NONE,button1=scribus.BUTTON_OK) sys.exit(1)