Hi all, this is a post covering two issues for which I apologise, but they are closely related.
1. I want to use a part of the summer holidays to learn Python, because from what I read on the Wiki, the scripting features of scribus are *very* interesting. Unfortunately, most German introductions to Python are out of print at the moment. Are there any German members who can recommend a good introduction to Python still available (No web ressources, please. Old fashioned as I am, I need a book!) 2. I have found a nice OOo macro on oomacros.org, and I think a similar functionality would be *extremely* useful for scribus. The macro "Seitenspiegel" (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=87718&package_id=138122) sets the page margins/print space exactly the way Gutenberg did, which is (for good reasons) still standard in modern page layout. Since scribus doesn't (yet) support facing pages, I always used OOo and a calculator to set proper margins in scribus. The author of the macro is Christian Kotz, and it is released under the LPGL, so I'm sure I'm not violating any copyrights by disclosing it in this forum: REM ***** BASIC ***** REM ***** (C)opyright by Christian Kotz 2004 REM ***** use at your own risk REM ***** released under the LGPL Sub Seitenspiegel Dim oStyleFamilies, oFamilies, oPageStyles, oStyle, oViewCursor, oPageStyleName Dim oDoc Dim ratio as Double oDoc = ThisComponent oViewCursor = oDoc.CurrentController.getViewCursor() oPageStyleName = oViewCursor.PageStyleName oPageStyles = oDoc.StyleFamilies.getByName("PageStyles") oStyle = oPageStyles.getByName(oPageStyleName) ratio = oStyle.Height / oStyle.Width REM Sqr(2.0) oStyle.TopMargin = oStyle.LeftMargin * ratio oStyle.RightMargin = oStyle.LeftMargin * 2 oStyle.BottomMargin = oStyle.RightMargin * ratio oStyle.PageStyleLayout = 3 REM MIRRORED End Sub I'd like to do the same thing in python, but unfortunately I still have to learn some things in this area. Maybe some of the Python-savvy folks here are faster in translating OOo BASIC to Python. BTW, (this would be item # 3), having an option "book style - recommended for multi-page documents" at document setup would be a wonderful feature. In case there isn't a similar request already, I'll file a bug report. Christoph
