On 11/17/2010 01:29 PM, David Bookbinder wrote:
> I'm interested in using Scribis foe a photo book and would be interested in 
> seeing any templates from others who have done this successfully. I'll 
> probably print through Amazon and will get their dimensions, but as this is 
> my first DTP venture having a template to star that includes things like 
> spine and jacket text as well as cover art would be a great help.
>
Here is a collection of scripts I wrote some years ago for creating 
something like a photo album.

http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Automatic_import_of_images:_Versions_not_requiring_Tkinter

What I was trying to do was to deal with the chore of individually 
loading a large number of photos into a Scribus document. The idea was 
to identify a directory full of images, after which the script creates 
pages with a particular layout and loads the images in alphabetical 
order according to the file name.

I have made options to simply cram as many photos as possible on a page, 
and others with a staggered layout so that text frames could be inserted 
for various descriptions and annotations. The relative dimensions were 
according the the first digital camera I had, so when I upgraded my 
camera I needed to alter those parameters.

The scripts are mainly meant as a starting point for the idea to show 
how it can be done, and leave plenty of room for customization by others.

Greg

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