Automatically Creating a Graph

With the collective ability to automatically draw lines and text boxes, Scribus can, without a great deal of work, be used to automatically generate a graph structure. Here I will show some basic Python commands to do that.

This currently works on version 1.3.4cvs. There is a problem with drawing vertical lines from Scripter, which was worked out for 1.3.4, but probably not in earlier 1.3.x versions.

This early version will give three requestors, the first for a title of the graph, the second and third for the labels of the X-axis and Y-axis respectively. The dimensions and coordinates used are presuming points as page units.

Here is an example of the output:

Here is the script: #!/usr/bin/env python # File: graph.py # originally 2006.05.17 # creates basic graph with axis labels import scribus xorigin = 150 # x-origin of graph yorigin = 450 # y-origin of graph xaxis=400 #x axis length yaxis=350 #y axis length color="Black" a = 1.5 # width of lines if scribus.haveDoc(): # Three requestors to get label names title = scribus.valueDialog('Title','Enter Title') xlabel = scribus.valueDialog('X-axis Label','Enter X-Label') ylabel = scribus.valueDialog('Y-axis Label','Enter Y-Label') scribus.setRedraw(1) scribus.setUnit(0) # First draw the X-axis d = scribus.createLine(xorigin,yorigin,xorigin+xaxis,yorigin) scribus.setLineWidth(a, d) scribus.setLineColor(color, d) scribus.setFillColor(color, d) # Now the Y-axis d = scribus.createLine(xorigin,yorigin,xorigin,yorigin-yaxis) scribus.setLineWidth(a, d) scribus.setLineColor(color, d) scribus.setFillColor(color, d) # The Title text frame T = scribus.createText(60, 45, 500, 60) scribus.setTextColor("Red", T) scribus.setText(title, T) scribus.setTextAlignment(1, T) scribus.setFont("Nimbus Roman No9 L Bold", T) scribus.setFontSize(28, T) # Label for X-axis XL = scribus.createText(xorigin, yorigin + 20, 400, 40) scribus.setText(xlabel, XL) scribus.setTextAlignment(1, XL) scribus.setFont("Luxi Sans Regular", XL) scribus.setFontSize(20, XL) # Label for Y-axis, rotated YL = scribus.createText(90, 450, 350, 40) scribus.setText(ylabel, YL) scribus.setTextAlignment(1, YL) scribus.setFont("Luxi Sans Regular", YL) scribus.setFontSize(20, YL) scribus.rotateObject(90,YL) scribus.redrawAll()