Adjust a text frame to fit its content
adjust the size of existing text frames
<script>
- !/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)
</script>
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)