Generate a ten page layout with three columns on each page

The following script generates a ten page layout with three columns a columnline and a column-headline on each page. It's an example for using some base script elements like newDoc, newPage, createText an so on. Its been tested with scribus 1.3.1cvs on Mac OSX. Please pay attention to the FIRSTPAGELEFT constant. During my tests scribus creates a right page as first page. I think this is a bug and could get corrected next time, so you have to change it to FISTPAGERIGHT.

Warning !! 'newDoc' function is deprecated. Use instead newDocument. Look at the online manual for more details.

todo : update script.

from scribus import * newDoc((185, 250), (12, 20, 15, 28), PORTRAIT, 1, UNIT_MILLIMETERS, FACINGPAGES, FIRSTPAGELEFT)

for i in range(9) : newPage(-1)

for f in range(1,10,2) : gotoPage(f) createLine(12, 20, 126, 20) createText(71, 15, 55/mm, 6/mm, "Kolumnentitel_"+str(f)) setText("Kolumnentitel", "Kolumnentitel_"+str(f)) setTextAlignment(ALIGN_RIGHT, "Kolumnentitel_"+str(f)) createText(12, 24, 55/mm, 199/mm, "Kolumne_"+str(f)+"_rechts_1") createText(71, 24, 55/mm, 199/mm, "Kolumne_"+str(f)+"_rechts_2") createText(130, 24, 35/mm, 199/mm, "Kolumne_"+str(f)+"_rechts_3") gotoPage(f+1) createLine(59, 20, 173, 20) createText(59, 15, 55/mm, 6/mm, "Kolumnentitel_"+str(f+1)) setText("Kolumnentitel", "Kolumnentitel_"+str(f+1)) setTextAlignment(ALIGN_LEFT, "Kolumnentitel_"+str(f+1)) createText(20, 24, 35/mm, 199/mm, "Kolumne_"+str(f+1)+"_links_1") createText(59, 24, 55/mm, 199/mm, "Kolumne_"+str(f+1)+"_links_2") createText(118, 24, 55/mm, 199/mm, "Kolumne_"+str(f+1)+"_links_3")

For use with scribus 1.2.3 you have to change the constants for calculating Millimeters/Points mm to Millimeters and the constant FIRSTPAGELEFT to FIRSTPAGERIGHT because scribus 1.2.3 has no bug here.

from scribus import * newDoc((185, 250), (12, 20, 15, 28), PORTRAIT, 1, UNIT_MILLIMETERS, FACINGPAGES, FIRSTPAGERIGHT)

for i in range(9) : newPage(-1)

for f in range(1,10,2) : gotoPage(f) createLine(12, 20, 126, 20) createText(71, 15, 55/Millimeters, 6/Millimeters, "Kolumnentitel_"+str(f)) setText("Kolumnentitel", "Kolumnentitel_"+str(f)) setTextAlignment(ALIGN_RIGHT, "Kolumnentitel_"+str(f)) createText(12, 24, 55/Millimeters, 199/Millimeters, "Kolumne_"+str(f)+"_rechts_1") createText(71, 24, 55/Millimeters, 199/Millimeters, "Kolumne_"+str(f)+"_rechts_2") createText(130, 24, 35/Millimeters, 199/Millimeters, "Kolumne_"+str(f)+"_rechts_3") gotoPage(f+1) createLine(59, 20, 173, 20) createText(59, 15, 55/Millimeters, 6/Millimeters, "Kolumnentitel_"+str(f+1)) setText("Kolumnentitel", "Kolumnentitel_"+str(f+1)) setTextAlignment(ALIGN_LEFT, "Kolumnentitel_"+str(f+1)) createText(20, 24, 35/Millimeters, 199/Millimeters, "Kolumne_"+str(f+1)+"_links_1") createText(59, 24, 55/Millimeters, 199/Millimeters, "Kolumne_"+str(f+1)+"_links_2") createText(118, 24, 55/Millimeters, 199/Millimeters, "Kolumne_"+str(f+1)+"_links_3")