On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 9:18 AM, Louis Desjardins < louis.desjardins at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2015-05-31 8:11 GMT-04:00 Kunda Loves Scribus <scribus.user at gmail.com>: > > > A quick heads up to those of you who take advantage of the Scripting > > functionality in Scribus: > > > > > https://github.com/outilslibresalternatifs/scribus-scripts/tree/master/image-grid > > > > This python script creates an image grid by creating a new Document and > > importing a grid of your specified images. You can choose the document > > format, the number of columns and rows. > > > > Nice. > > Would it be possible to make this script add picture infos in a text frame > attached to the image, including filename? > > That would be really useful when you must decide which pic can make it into > a publication based on tech specs such as > - filename > - x-y resolution > - x-y size at 4 resolutions (user definable) : 72-96-225-300 dpi > - total area expressed in square inches and square centimeters for each 4 > resolutions > - image type > - color space > - bit depth > - weight of image > - more... > > The script could give the people working on a project a very rapid overview > of the quality of the images they intend to use, technically wise. > > This could be ideally sorted by a user definable field, depending on what > suits better the needs for screening out pics. > > For instance, displaying the pics sorted by ?Total area at 300 dpi? would > allow to immediately flag images that are suitable or not for a given need. > > Displaying them in order of ?image type? would allow to flag at a glance if > some GIFs made it into the image folder, or some other unsuitable image > type, etc. > > Another approach would be to have the pics imported by their name in > alphabetical order as a visual reference and from that file an export to > csv would allow all sorts of reports to be produced in a breeze. Finding > the images that don?t suit the needs would be easy for the users. > > Transmitting this valuable info to the various people working on a project > would then be a breeze. Export to PDF and a Calc sheet and voil?. > > No more discussions about the usability of an image at a desired size. > Louis, Good place to continue this conversation is on their idea page: https://github.com/outilslibresalternatifs/scribus-scripts/issues/4 /Kunda -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20150531/c4790a84/attachment.html>
