Re: batch load svg files into scribus

Thanks!
That should get me where I need to be.  The files are sized already. You've
given me 99% of what I need and I should be able to tinker out the custom
bits.

Thanks
Meaux


On Mon, Aug 3, 2020, 9:18 AM Gregory Pittman <gpittman-s/[email protected]> wrote:

> On 8/3/20 2:47 AM, Meaux Mazey wrote:
> > I'm new to email list servers. I'm not seeing my post on the archive. Do
> I
> > need to resend?
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 5:59 PM Meaux Mazey <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello world,
> >> I was looking for a script to batch load svg files into a scribus
> document.
> >> I found a thread from 2015 that gave the function placeSVG (filename,
> x,y)
> >> one function is not a script.
> >> Is there a batch script written?
> >>
>
> Hi Meaux,
>
> I don't know what happened, but the message never showed up on the 25th.
>
> As far as your question, I think that importing SVGs has a lot of
> considerations that are hard to generalize, since the placeSVG() command
> just places the SVG without regard to its size.
> Here is a very small script that just places a chosen SVG at 100, 100 (I
> use points units).
>
> ********
> #!/usr/bin/env python
>
> # File: impsvg.py
> # Imports SVG to document to current page
>
> import scribus
> import os
>
> mySVG = scribus.fileDialog('Select an SVG','SVG files (*.svg)')
> scribus.placeSVG(mySVG,100,100)
>
> ********
>
> If you had a number of SVGs in a directory you could put in a command to
> select a directory, like
>
> svgdir = scribus.fileDialog('Select SVG
> Directory','Directories',isdir=True)
> d = os.listdir(svgdir)
> D = []
> for file in d:
>     if file.endswith('.svg') or file.endswith('.SVG'):
>          D.append(file)
>
> After this, you would have to have some scheme of where the SVGs would be
> placed, and go through your list D to place them.
> This is something like the script I wrote from creating an album of
> images, though there I had a much wider range to image types to consider,
> but this used a fixed layout:
>
>
> https://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Automatic_import_of_images:_Versions_not_requiring_Tkinter
>
> Hopefully that's enough to get you started.
>
> Greg
>
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