{"id":309,"date":"2008-03-12T13:31:40","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T12:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/?p=309"},"modified":"2008-09-08T16:17:58","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T15:17:58","slug":"multiple-pages-with-linked-boxes-in-scribus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/tools\/multiple-pages-with-linked-boxes-in-scribus","title":{"rendered":"Multiple pages with (linked) boxes in Scribus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Besides pagenumbers, Scribus masterpages can currently only hold static elements. <a href=\"http:\/\/textzi.net\/\">Ivan Monroy Lopez<\/a> wrote us a very handy python script which puts as many linked or unlinked text boxes on as many pages you want. You can also run the script multiple times&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/measurements.py' title='measurements.py'>measurements.py<\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/template.py' title='template.py'>template.py<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThe script is split into two files: <strong>measurements.py<\/strong> and <strong>template.py<\/strong>. <strong>Template.py<\/strong> should be run from inside Scribus (In the main menu choose: Script > Execute Script). Put info about boxes (size, amount, page start etc.) into <strong>measurements.py<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This is what <strong>measurements.py<\/strong> looks like if you would want to end up with a 22 page document with 2 linked columns of equal length on each page:<\/p>\n<p><code>#the script will start inserting boxes at page<br \/>\nstart = 1<br \/>\n#the script will stop inserting boxes at page<br \/>\nend = 22<\/code><br \/>\n<code>#the definition of text boxes follows the format:<br \/>\n#[x-position, y-position, width, height]<br \/>\n#x and y positions refer to top-left corner of boxes.<br \/>\n#units are based on the default set for the document.<br \/>\n<\/code><br \/>\n<code>#text boxes needed in even pages. edit as needed.<br \/>\neven = [[0, 0, 100, 100], [100, 100, 100, 100]]<br \/>\n<\/code><br \/>\n<code>#text boxes needed in odd pages. edit as needed.<br \/>\nodd = [[0, 100, 100, 100], [100, 0, 100, 100]]<\/code><br \/>\n<code>#will the text boxes be linked? (yes or no)<br \/>\nlink = 'yes'<br \/>\n#link = 'no'<\/code><\/p>\n<p>both <strong>measurements.py<\/strong> and <strong>template.py<\/strong> should be in the same directory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Besides pagenumbers, Scribus masterpages can currently only hold static elements. Ivan Monroy Lopez wrote us a very handy python script which puts as many linked or unlinked text boxes on as many pages you want. You can also run the script multiple times&#8230; measurements.py template.py<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[59,2],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":674,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}