Elementary Rectangle

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This article is part of the Scripts series.

This script is specific to A4 paper, you will need to change the wth and dph constants for different papers.

Introduces: CreateRect SetFillColor SetSetCornerRadius.

Result Python Code
simple rectangle made with scribus python script
Elementary Rectangle generated from python
#!/usr/bin/env python

"""
this script draws a black border on A4 and has been tested against 1.4.3.  
Calls used in this script are;

newDocument
createRect
setCornerRadius
setLineWidth
setFillColor
setLineColor
saveDocAs
 
"""
from scribus import *

if newDocument(PAPER_A4, (10, 10, 10, 10), PORTRAIT, 1, UNIT_POINTS, NOFACINGPAGES, FIRSTPAGERIGHT, 1):

      spx=20          # x co-ord Start point
      spy=20          # y co-ord Start point
      wth=595         # A4 width in points
      dph=842         # Depth of frame - adjust to suit
      a=8             # Line width
      b="Black"       # add other colors as required
      b1="Blue"
      w="White"

      h = createRect(spx,spy,wth-2*spx,dph-2*spy)
      setCornerRadius(20, h)
      setLineWidth(8, h)
      setFillColor(w, h)
      setLineColor(b, h)

      saveDocAs("Border_2.sla") #Make sure this is writable