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#1
Scripts and Plugins / Re: Importing modules into Pyt...
Last post by a.l.e - August 25, 2026, 08:02:08 PMSo three things:
- For the update of the documentation, you can make a patch (to the .h file with the documentation) with the changes and submit it to https://bugs.scribus.net .
- I generate and publish the (now a little outdated) documentation on impagina.org ... I will refresh it at some time in the future. Promised. The documentation is taking the content from the source code.
- I know now why I've not published yet the script with the cool outline detection: the scripter API is missing a function that I've only my computer: time to work on a patch!
#2
MacOS / Re: insert files from iCloud i...
Last post by FrantzB1978 - August 25, 2026, 02:46:00 PMQuote from: Nermander on March 03, 2019, 05:41:55 PMQuote from: josefcarel on March 03, 2019, 03:15:27 PMWhat is strange in my case, is that Scribus sees the files in iCloud, and only some are not visible. The proposal to download those files to the computer seems to me a missed advice. Why can not you work directly with the Cloud? I hope there is some advice about this issue.
The key here is that Scribus does not store any images in the SLA, it only stores references. This means each time you open a document Scribus loads the images from disk.
I am not sure how iCloud works, but if it does not cache the images on your disk, the images will have to be downloaded from the cloud each time you open a document. And depending on your internet connection that may take some time.
That is why you are given the suggestion to download the images to your disk. Then they will always be available when Scribus is looking for them.
Exactly. The important distinction is that the .sla file isn't a self-contained package containing the image data; Scribus is storing the file paths and loading those images when the document opens.
So if the images are sitting in iCloud and macOS has offloaded the local copies, Scribus may have to fetch them again before it can display them. That can make opening a document slower and can also cause problems if you're offline or the files haven't finished downloading.
I'd keep the images used by an active Scribus project locally available, ideally in a dedicated project folder. You can still use iCloud for backup/sync, but I wouldn't rely on cloud-only copies for the assets that Scribus needs to access constantly.
#3
Scripts and Plugins / SOLVED: copying from clipboard...
Last post by henrylaw - August 25, 2026, 01:07:23 PMQuote from: a.l.e on August 24, 2026, 08:59:03 PMjust tested: pasteObject() does paste the content of the clipboard into a text frame that is in edit mode...
Oh, I missed that; in my defence it's under "Item" in the API docs, and also its description is "Pastes an object from the clipboard. This will be used only or most sensibly following copyObject(...)" - nothing about pasting text. Thank you.
How would I best request an update to the API documentation? I read it at this page but it may be available in other places.
#4
Scripts and Plugins / Re: Importing modules into Pyt...
Last post by a.l.e - August 24, 2026, 08:59:03 PMjust tested: pasteObject() does paste the content of the clipboard into a text frame that is in edit mode...
... and, yes, I have /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests ...
... and, yes, I have /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests ...
#5
Scripts and Plugins / Re: Importing modules into Pyt...
Last post by henrylaw - August 24, 2026, 08:14:04 PMThank you very much for weighing in to help. My response:
1. pyperclip is installed via apt:
2. I've scoured the scripter interface docs (Link here) and can find no function for copying and pasting. I confess that I used the table of contents page on the LHS to select what I thought were likely sub-headings for such a function - I didn't search it all. I'd love to just grep it but don't have a complete file.
It seems that my experience with 'pyperclip' (installed system-wide with apt) is different from yours with 'requests' (also installed system-wide with apt). But why? Mint is Ubuntu-based and therefore Debian-based.
1. pyperclip is installed via apt:
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dpkg -L python3-pyperclip
/.
/usr
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/python3
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pyperclip
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pyperclip/__init__.py
... snipped
/usr/share/doc/python3-pyperclip/copyright
"/usr/lib/python3/..." looks pretty system-wide, and yet it definitely isn't picked up by my script (see earlier posts).2. I've scoured the scripter interface docs (Link here) and can find no function for copying and pasting. I confess that I used the table of contents page on the LHS to select what I thought were likely sub-headings for such a function - I didn't search it all. I'd love to just grep it but don't have a complete file.
It seems that my experience with 'pyperclip' (installed system-wide with apt) is different from yours with 'requests' (also installed system-wide with apt). But why? Mint is Ubuntu-based and therefore Debian-based.
#6
Scripts and Plugins / Re: Importing modules into Pyt...
Last post by a.l.e - August 24, 2026, 06:05:08 PMSo, let's see what I can do for you.
First, in my experience scripts running inside of Scribus correctly import module that are (correctly) installed system wide.
Indeed, on my Debian Linux I have requests installed through apt and
runs in the Scribus console, and does return some text that is very similar to the main page of this forum.
So, if you want to easily use pyperclip in your script (But do you really need it? I believe the Scribus scripter API does have functions for copying and pasting...), you will need to properly install it properly.
I would not mix pip and your systems package manager.
Now, requests is something that I use so often, that I'm happy to have it installed on my machine (I just need not to forget to add it the requirements if I share the script...), but I'm not sure that you want install pyperclip globally or if Mint has it at all (Debian testing does have it).
Sadly, the next step is a bit steeper.
If you don't want to correctly install the package system wide, then you need a virtual environment. But it does not seem to be possible to access it, by simply activating it in a terminal and starting Scribus from the same terminal while the virtual environment is active.
But there is a way to get there.
Even if it is a bit convoluted:
Voilà.
The script is not published yet.
I think that it was not 100% finished and I got distracted by a squirrel running in front of my window...
But if you are interested in going the way I describe above, on Thursday I can try to create a sample script that shows how to do it (or publish the script that calculates the contour of an image... which is way cooler...)
Enjoy your evening!
First, in my experience scripts running inside of Scribus correctly import module that are (correctly) installed system wide.
Indeed, on my Debian Linux I have requests installed through apt and
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import requests
response = requests.get('https://forums.scribus.net')
print(response.text)runs in the Scribus console, and does return some text that is very similar to the main page of this forum.
So, if you want to easily use pyperclip in your script (But do you really need it? I believe the Scribus scripter API does have functions for copying and pasting...), you will need to properly install it properly.
I would not mix pip and your systems package manager.
Now, requests is something that I use so often, that I'm happy to have it installed on my machine (I just need not to forget to add it the requirements if I share the script...), but I'm not sure that you want install pyperclip globally or if Mint has it at all (Debian testing does have it).
Sadly, the next step is a bit steeper.
If you don't want to correctly install the package system wide, then you need a virtual environment. But it does not seem to be possible to access it, by simply activating it in a terminal and starting Scribus from the same terminal while the virtual environment is active.
But there is a way to get there.
Even if it is a bit convoluted:
- Create your virtual environment as usual and install the package in there (I went for "python -m venv venv" and then "pip install", but other types of virtual environment might also work)
- In your script, get a copy of the environment and remove the environment variable PYTHON_HOME, add VIRTUAL_ENV with the path to the venv, and add your venv's bin to the env copy PATH.
- Start a subprocess that uses the copy of the environment as its env
- Get the result of the sub process.
- In my script, the secondary script does not access Scribus... but I don't recall, if it was not possible or I simply did not need it. Probably the first one.
Voilà.
The script is not published yet.
I think that it was not 100% finished and I got distracted by a squirrel running in front of my window...
But if you are interested in going the way I describe above, on Thursday I can try to create a sample script that shows how to do it (or publish the script that calculates the contour of an image... which is way cooler...)
Enjoy your evening!
#7
Scripts and Plugins / Re: Importing modules into Pyt...
Last post by a.l.e - August 24, 2026, 01:13:38 PM... if you can wait, I will try to give you some insights tonight CET...
#8
Scripts and Plugins / Re: Importing modules into Pyt...
Last post by henrylaw - August 24, 2026, 01:12:08 PMUpdate: I wrote a small module (in another language, to make sure I wasn't using the built-in Python interpreter) which does nothing more than read the clipboard and print it to stdout. In my scripter program I then coded
import subprocess
clip_data = subprocess.run( '/home/henry/Perl/tryout/tryout',
shell=False,
capture_output=True,
text=True )
scribus.messageBox( 'stdout',clip_data.stdout )
Result? "FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/henry/Perl/tryout/tryout'"
... and that file definitely does exist: I can execute it from the command line, thus:
henry@prospero:~$ /home/henry/Perl/tryout/tryout
This is data from the clipboard
I give up, frankly. I shall have to paste my clipboard output to a file, and then within my scripter program read that file back in again. Bah.
import subprocess
clip_data = subprocess.run( '/home/henry/Perl/tryout/tryout',
shell=False,
capture_output=True,
text=True )
scribus.messageBox( 'stdout',clip_data.stdout )
Result? "FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/henry/Perl/tryout/tryout'"
... and that file definitely does exist: I can execute it from the command line, thus:
henry@prospero:~$ /home/henry/Perl/tryout/tryout
This is data from the clipboard
I give up, frankly. I shall have to paste my clipboard output to a file, and then within my scripter program read that file back in again. Bah.
#9
Scripts and Plugins / Re: Importing modules into Pyt...
Last post by henrylaw - August 24, 2026, 12:42:28 PMUpdate. I tried creating /usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pyperclip and then hard linking the files in there to their equivalents in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pyperclip
Still the module is not found.
Still the module is not found.
#10
Scripts and Plugins / Importing modules into Python ...
Last post by henrylaw - August 23, 2026, 05:11:51 PMI am writing a scripter program that will take text from the clipboard, do some reformatting and then insert it into a text frame. To do this I'm trying to import 'pyperscript'. Environment is Linux Mint 22.3
I code
import pyperscript
... and get the message
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pyperclip'
The module is installed; I have test programs, run from the command line, that find and execute it.
Reading up, I think I understand that the python interpreter in Scribus has its own "sys.path", so I wrote a simple routine which prints that out; right enough it doesn't contain /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages, which is where "pyperclip" lives. It does contain /usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages, so I experimented with
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pyperclip /usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pyperclip
(and had to create /usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages in the process). But the module is still not found.
Is there a way to do what I want to do?
I code
import pyperscript
... and get the message
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pyperclip'
The module is installed; I have test programs, run from the command line, that find and execute it.
Reading up, I think I understand that the python interpreter in Scribus has its own "sys.path", so I wrote a simple routine which prints that out; right enough it doesn't contain /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages, which is where "pyperclip" lives. It does contain /usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages, so I experimented with
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pyperclip /usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pyperclip
(and had to create /usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages in the process). But the module is still not found.
Is there a way to do what I want to do?