scribus on 4k display

[busscri]

Hello

I am using Scribus 1.6.2 on a 4K display and it is very painfull. Is there a way to upscale things?
I heard that scribus 1.7 might handle this much better. But I could not find a way to run it on my ubuntu machine.

[AdmFubar]

You might want to try installin kvantum. I have it on my machine, but I just swapped out my 2k display for a 4k one to test(tv), but my system doesnt see allow the hight resolution . prolly need a graphics processor other then the one on the board, so I'm not sure if it will allow the enlargment like i suspect.
see:
https://store.kde.org/p/1005410

[busscri]

Hi AdmFubar, thanks.

interesting software but I dont think that is exactly what I was searching for. Might try it anyways. but seems a bit of understanding how things work behind the hood of kde qt based apps....

[tim_occ]

hi busscri,

please, can you share a screenshot? I guess the icon scale is too small in 1.6.2. Scribus 1.7.0 has SVG based icons that will scale by your screen scale factor.

What is your scale factor in your Ubuntu display settings?

[BN_Dev]

Try this:

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$ QT_SCALE_FACTOR=1.5 scribus &

[ajwe]

I hope it's okay that I add on to this thread, as I'm having the same problem as the original poster. I recently dumped Windows and moved to Linux Mint 22 and am hoping to be able to use Scribus. However, on my 3840x2160 monitor, it's very difficult to use. I tried a previous suggestion (setting QT_SCALE_FACTOR) and that makes some things like fonts bigger, but it doesn't fix all of the problems. Attached is a screenshot where the icons at the top are painfully small and on some of the popup windows the choices in the left column aren't readable (and resizing the window doesn't seem to allow me to resize that left column).

I have made other preference changes to Linux Mint's Display to get most other applications to look right (Monitor Scale set to 150% and using large icons on GIMP, for instance) and it seems to be working very nicely overall.

Any suggestions for other things to try to make Scribus work? Thanks!

[a.l.e]

if you can compile scribus yourself, you can try the development branch scribus 1.7 ...

it uses the newest Qt and might correctly support higher resolutions.

... and, now, you can even save from 1.7 into 1.6 format! (so no warning about not being able to open the file with a stable version of scribus : - )

if you're not happy with it, i can check with my old Dell laptop, how i had set it up there (but i was just setting the QT_SCALE_FACTOR and/or accepting that everything was very small)