Image Wizard Advanced

This article is part of the Scripts series.

You may have seen the the Image Wizard script. This Image Wizard Advanced script gives more options to help you with manipulating images. It may be particularly helpful in working with a photo album.

• Selection options:
  • Single Image Only
  • Multiple Images
  • Only the Inner Image of a Two Image Group
  • Only the Outer Image of a Two Image Group
• Scale to Fill Frame (proportional scaling with cropping)
• Scale to Fit Frame (standard Scribus "Scale to Frame Size: Proportional" - no cropping)
• Scale Image to: x % (proportional scaling by the given percentage)
• Automatic alignment (9 possible alignments)
• Click arrow buttons to align the image in the frame
• Click arrow buttons to align the frame on the canvas
• Flip the image horizontally or vertically

Each button click performs a separate action on all the currently selected images. So if you need to scale the image and then align it, you should first click the scaling button, then select your alignment and press the Align button.

I hope you'll find this script useful. This script has been immensely helpful to me in laying out the pictures for a photo album. More functions may be forthcoming if I find some that are useful. Maybe this additional alignment and scaling functionality could be incorporated into Scribus at some point.

The script has been tested in Scribus 1.3.4. It requires Tkinter to be properly installed.

Warning: You can leave the script dialog open, and continue to scale and align more images that you select. However, due to a multi-threading bug with Python scripts in Scribus, if you attempt to launch another script while this one is running, Scribus will probably crash and you'll lose your document. So be careful, and save often! Also, when the script is running, it may interfere with other Scribus actions such as using the Properties toolbar.

Here is a screenshot of the script:

Save this script with a filename of Image_Wizard_Advanced.py, for example.