Adjust a text frame to fit its content
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adjust the size of existing text frames
#!/usr/bin/env python """ this script adjust the height of a text frame to exactly fit its content, but not be longer than the page margin @author: alessandro rimoldi @version: 1.0 / 20090131 @copyright (c) 2009 alessandro rimoldi under the mit license http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html """ import sys try: import scribus except ImportError: print "This script only works from within Scribus" sys.exit(1) # check that the selection is one text frame and get that frame frame_n = scribus.selectionCount() if frame_n == 0 : scribus.messageBox('Error:', 'No frame selected'); sys.exit(1) elif frame_n > 1 : scribus.messageBox('Error:', 'You may select only one frame'); sys.exit(1) frame = scribus.getSelectedObject(0) try: char_n = scribus.getTextLength(frame) except scribus.WrongFrameTypeError: scribus.messageBox('Error:', 'You may only adjust text frames'); sys.exit(1) if char_n == 0 : scribus.messageBox('Error:', 'You can\'t adjust an empty frame'); sys.exit(1) # get some page and frame measure (x, ph) = scribus.getPageSize(); (x, x, x, pm) = scribus.getPageMargins(); # warning: gets the margins from document setup not for the current page (x, y) = scribus.getPosition(frame) bottom = (ph - pm) - y (w, h) = scribus.getSize(frame) # if the frame doesn't overflow, shorten it to make it overflow while (((scribus.textOverflows(frame) == 0) or (h > bottom)) and (h > 0)) : h -= 10 scribus.sizeObject(w, h, frame) # resize the frame in 10pt steps while ((scribus.textOverflows(frame) > 0) and (h < bottom)) : h += 10 scribus.sizeObject(w, h, frame) # undo the latest 10pt step and fine adjust in 1pt steps h -= 10 scribus.sizeObject(w, h, frame) while ((scribus.textOverflows(frame) > 0) and (h < bottom)) : h += 1 scribus.sizeObject(w, h, frame)
import a text at the right size
- read a text file
- filter it line by line
- put it in a frame
- fit the height of the frame to the length of its content
#!/usr/bin/env python import sys try: import scribus except ImportError: print "This script only works from within Scribus" sys.exit(1) # read the content of the file line by line into the text frame file_name = 'mytext.txt' file_name = 'abc.txt' file = open(file_name, 'r') text = ""; for line in open(file_name, 'r') : if line != '\n': # put here some text handling/filtering text += unicode(line, 'iso-8859-2') # create a text frame and put the text into it x = 60 y = 100 w = 300 h = 10 frame = scribus.createText(x, y, w, h) scribus.setText(text, frame) # resize the frame in 10pt steps while (scribus.textOverflows(frame) > 0) : h += 10 scribus.sizeObject(w, h, frame) # undo the latest 10pt step and fine adjust in 1pt steps h -= 10 scribus.sizeObject(w, h, frame) while (scribus.textOverflows(frame) > 0) : h += 1 scribus.sizeObject(w, h, frame)