Align to left page margin

1. !/usr/bin/python

""" adjust placement of text frames when the insertion of a page has scrambled the previous left/right "order" @author: alessandro rimoldi @version: 0.1 / 20100304 @copyright (c) 2010 alessandro rimoldi under the mit license

          http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html

@bugs fix scripter API documentation: for double sided pages, getPageMargins() returns inner and outer margins instead of left and right """ import sys try:

  import scribus

except ImportError:

  print "This script only works from within Scribus"
  sys.exit(1)

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)

1. store the current unit and use pt

unit_current = scribus.getUnit() scribus.setUnit(scribus.UNIT_POINTS)

(mT, mI, mO , mB) = scribus.getPageMargins()

frame = scribus.getSelectedObject(0) (x, y) = scribus.getPosition(frame) (w, h) = scribus.getSize(frame) p = scribus.currentPage() n = scribus.pageCount()

1. @todo: invert if first page is left

if (p % 2) == 0 :

   dX = mO - x

else :

   dX = mI - x

if dX == 0:

   scribus.messageBox('Error:', 'The current frame is already correctly placed')
   sys.exit(1)

for i in range(p, n + 1) :

   scribus.gotoPage(i)
   # scribus.messageBox('Message:', str(i))
   (iT, iI, iO , iB) = scribus.getPageMargins()
   iItem = scribus.getPageItems()
   for jItem in iItem:
       jFrame = jItem[0]
       (jX, jY) = scribus.getPosition(jFrame)
       (jW, jH) = scribus.getSize(jFrame)
       if (i % 2) == 0 :
           djX = iO - j
       else :
           djX = iI - jX
       # scribus.messageBox('Message:', 'i:'+str(i)+'\ndjX:'+str(djX))

       # the item must be at the same height as the original have the same width
       # and have a distance from the left margin equal to the difference
       # between left and right margin
       if (round(jY, 2) == round(y, 2)) and (round(jW, 2) == round(w, 2)) and (abs(round(djX, 2)) == abs(round(dX, 2))) :
           scribus.moveObject(djX, 0, jFrame)

1. restore the user's unit

scribus.gotoPage(p) scribus.setUnit(unit_current)