Lorem Ipsum in Spanish

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rickvera

Hello everyone,
Scribus needs a Spanish translation of the Lorem Ipsum sample text.

Lynn

So "lorem ipsum" generally refers to the latin-based sample text that graphic designers use to test layouts; which is intentionally gibberish so viewers don't think the text is part of the design.

The window for sample texts in Scribus is labeled "select lorem ipsum", which is a bit confusing. Are you requesting the latin gibberish be translated into spanish, or are you looking for a spanish language sample text?

rickvera

I'm referring to the sample text option for filling empty text boxes. There are other languages ��available, but Spanish isn't one of them.

a.l.e

As Lynn correctly wrote, many (most?) people are used to the "latin" Lorem Ipsum.

For a few languages, Scribus also has a localized sample text.

The idea behind it, is that it might look less distracting than a gibberish text.

Feel free to suggest a text that could be used for Spanish. The text will need to fulfill two conditions:

  • It should be considered a "void" text by Spanish reader (the person looking at the document should unmistakably recognize that it's a placeholder text).
  • The text need to be free of copyrights (as an example, the author had died more that 70 years ago; or the text is under a liberal Creative Common license).

This having been said, I wonder how useful / good the texts that have made it into Scribus are...

All in all, the best thing would probably be to remove all but the "real" one and allow the user to add custom ones...