PMGS Stamp Album Page Generator For Scribus V1.2

Mike,

Let me know if you need any help. I can do a screen share over Google Hangouts if needed.

Yes, I was able to open the sample. Just have to learn how to use it. Will probably have questions later. Was gone all day, so did not have a chance to look at it further today.

Thanks.

A new update today -- v1.4.5.

This version gives you the ability to generate a muti-row, multi-column set layout in one run, like this:


Video demo:



Also, in the past, the script could only be used with v1.4.x of Scribus, as the v1.5.x releases had some showstopping bugs. It appears as if most of those have been fixed as of Scribus v1.5.4. I haven't fully tested it since I don't use Scribus that much, but feel free to give it a try.

Any problems or questions, don't hesitate to ask.

Time to install Scribus 1.5.4!

I installed Scribus 1.5.4 but have not done anything with it. I hope it did not break spelling function. That was a confusing to configure.

apastuszak,

Any luck with Scribus 1.5.4? I couldn't remember exactly what the bug was that was causing problems. Something with the font spacing or textbox grow/shrink that was throwing off the math. And hyphenation, IIRC.

I just installed Scribus 1.5.4 on my laptop earlier this week in order to hack up a bunch of Mystic pages. I'll have to do some testing tomorrow and see what happens.

As an added bonus to my life, my 17 year old son got a summer job at a stamp and coin store. So, I'm sure I'll be busy making lots of pages this summer!

I just found your lovely tool today and I keep getting the following error. What am I doing wrong?

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 8, in <module>
File "D:\Stamp Page Creation Stuff\PostmasterGS Album Generator\pytSAPG_v1_4_5.py", line 7164, in <module>
funcImportSettings()
File "D:\Stamp Page Creation Stuff\PostmasterGS Album Generator\pytSAPG_v1_4_5.py", line 705, in funcImportSettings
funcImportBatch()
File "D:\Stamp Page Creation Stuff\PostmasterGS Album Generator\pytSAPG_v1_4_5.py", line 1017, in funcImportBatch
funcGenerateSetFrameIndivText()
File "D:\Stamp Page Creation Stuff\PostmasterGS Album Generator\pytSAPG_v1_4_5.py", line 4350, in funcGenerateSetFrameIndivText
funcFacePlacementXFrameIndivText()
File "D:\Stamp Page Creation Stuff\PostmasterGS Album Generator\pytSAPG_v1_4_5.py", line 5361, in funcFacePlacementXFrameIndivText
scribus.setText(lstFace[f], shpFr)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xbd in position 0: invalid start byte

netnet1290,

Sorry you're having trouble with it. This is fixable, I'll just need to track down exactly what caused the error and release a bug fix.

That error is an unusual one. A Unicode Decode Error is usually caused by some character in the text that is encoded incorrectly by the software. Often, this is a character that isn't found in English, such as an accented character, Cyrillic, Arabic, etc.

Since the error is being generated from the software's attempt to place the Face Value box, was there a face value in one of the entries for which you were trying to generate boxes that had a non-English letter in it?

Postmaster,

Could it be the ½ (1/2)? I can send you my data if you need to see it. I am going to try changing them and see if that works.

Well I got a little closer but then I got this one.

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Script error
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<qt><p>If you are running an official script report it at <a href="http://bugs.scribus.net">bugs.scribus.net</a> please.</p><pre>Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 8, in <module>
File "D:\Stamp Page Creation Stuff\PostmasterGS Album Generator\pytSAPG_v1_4_5.py", line 7164, in <module>
funcImportSettings()
File "D:\Stamp Page Creation Stuff\PostmasterGS Album Generator\pytSAPG_v1_4_5.py", line 705, in funcImportSettings
funcImportBatch()
File "D:\Stamp Page Creation Stuff\PostmasterGS Album Generator\pytSAPG_v1_4_5.py", line 1064, in funcImportBatch
funcSetMultiYPosition()
File "D:\Stamp Page Creation Stuff\PostmasterGS Album Generator\pytSAPG_v1_4_5.py", line 7121, in funcSetMultiYPosition
strSetGroupTop = scribus.getProperty(lstGroupName, "yPos")
TypeError: Argument must be page item name, or PyCObject instance
</pre><p>This message is in your clipboard too. Use Ctrl+V to paste it into bug tracker.</p></qt>
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OK
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Can you email me a copy of the spreadsheet so I can attempt to duplicate the errors? I'm at postmaster -at - the name of my website.

I just tried 1.4.5 with Scribus 1.5.4 and everything seems to work fine, except for photos. I give it a path the photo, but it doesn't add it to the text file it generates.

Something else interesting. It seems that the missing picture is named after the page offset.

Thanks, Andy. I'm working on revisions as we speak to fix some bugs.