OT I know - be careful with Lulu. if you take a look on writers net (www.writers.net) and read about Lulu - you'll find some really serious issues.
just thought i'd pass along the warning. On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 13:12, Gregory Pittman wrote: > francesco fantoni wrote: > > >I'm working on a modified version of scribalbum.py, tailored to produce > >a 6x9 in phot-book to be printed using Lulu POD service. > >It takes 2 pictures each page, sees if they're landscape or portrait > >oriented, check if you're in a left or right page and puts the frames > >into the page following a pre-determined scheme, reads original image > >size and resizes the pictures to fit into the frames. > >it works quite well at a first test, but i still have to had pictures > >labels. When it first displays the resulting document, pictures are not > >displayed with the correct size, but as it's actually as it is supposed > >to be, if you save and reopen the file everything appears ok. > >Do some of you know if it is possible to make the frame fit picture size > >using the python api? > >i attach the alpha version of my script > >(the size of the paper is larger than 6x9 to give some bleed, according > >to lulu staff suggestion) > >francesco > > > > > Yes, I should have looked at lulu.py before I replied. You are using > scaleImage() instead of scaleImageToFrame(). I would think that if you > are using a set page format you really want to use scaleImageToFrame(). > That would allow you to crop pictures and still get what you want. > > Greg > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus -- jack wallen, jr mailto: jlwallen at monkeypantz.net AIM: linuxula or maryjanecapri http://www.monkeypantz.net public key: http://www.monkeypantz.net/jlwallen.asc -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20050312/37a45d74/attachment.pgp
