If possible, use SVG graphics in your template.

If you are in doubt if an image is really free, don't use it.

The internet offers a lot of sources for free images.

Scribus offers dummy texts in a lot of languages when right clicking a text frame.

If your document uses a text which is not free or which you don't want to be public, replace it by a dummy text.This entry was posted in Programming and tagged automation, desktop publishing, python, scribus, templates, tickets. tTextAlignment(scribus.ALIGN_CENTERED, B) tTextAlignment(scribus.ALIGN_CENTERED, A)ī = scribus.createText(x, y + 4.875, 1.875. Ticketnum = int(scribus.valueDialog('Ticket Number', 'Please enter the starting ticket number', str(ticketnumdefault))) Ticketcount = int(scribus.valueDialog('Tickets', 'Please enter the number of tickets', '8'))

Obviously, this layout uses letter size paper and would need to be adjusted for other paper sizes.

Creating additional pages, whether manually or programmatically, will create 8 more tickets per page. You can see those values below in x and y. This will produce a master page with unnumbered tickets. Then, duplicate the ticket 3 times horizontally by 2.125″, and all four once by 5.5″. Create a single ticket on the master page. I’ve attached a Scribus template that defines the guides for the tickets. What I discovered is that it was easier to create elements on the fly and assign the desired properties to them, rather than try to identify the elements on the page. Reviewing the example scripts will help you learn the functionality a bit but it can take a bit of work.

The Scribus website has a number of example Python scripts that you can use to learn from. It is often used to create web applications, linux desktop applications and even games. Python is a simple and power programming language.

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