On 12/21/2010 12:24 PM, Gregory Pittman wrote: > On 12/21/2010 09:38 AM, Olivier BERTEN wrote: >> Hi! >> >> Here is my first try at scripting Scribus: >> http://www.selapa.net/scribus/Pantone.py >> >> If you run it as standalone (or within Scribus< 1.5 but it doesn't >> really make sense), it let's you save Pantone's palettes in your >> "swatches/locked" folder. >> >>> From within Scribus 1.5, it features importing individual colors to the >> current document. It's limited to version 1.5 because earlier version >> don't allow to define RGB colors, which is how color data are available >> (with Lab, of course) for most of Pantone's palettes. >> By the way, adding individual colors from libraries is a feature that >> should be added to Scribus since you usually need process colors and a >> few spot colors. You don't need to import the whole thousands of colors >> in your document. And if you want to load a library, you loose all your >> colors... >> >> Comments and suggestions welcome... > > I tried this on Fedora 14, and it seemed to download info Ok, but then > was just spinning its wheels indefinitely. > > On killing Scribus and reopening, I have no additional color sets. > Looking in .scribus, I can see a pantone directory with a number of PNGs > and .js files, but swatches/locked is empty. > > I guess the thing to do if I can figure it out is to set up some > messageBoxes to see what it is trying to do when it fails.
I inserted a messageBox to find out the saving directory, and immediately got a traceback indicating that scribus.messageBox didn't work, so I noticed that there was no 'import scribus' line. Considering that there are several scribus.xxxx commands, I apparently never invoked any of these previously. As I scan the script, I wonder if there has been more reliance on various Qt commands than is really necessary -- for someone like me it makes it harder to interpret, and may be a bit of overkill in general. Greg
