Kening issues copying LibreCalc tables to Scribus

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chimaera

Hello fellow designers!
I'm having a great time with Scribus, but tables have been the bane of my existence. When copying tables over from LibreCalc to Scribus, I'm getting errors with text kerning that's causing certain characters and combinations of characters to appear garbled, or not appear at all. I'm using Monserrat Medium for the font in both LibreCalc and Scribus.

I'd love to hear if anyone has had similar issues, and how you solved it. I'd like to keep using Scribus, but I'm early enough in my layout that I'm happy to use something else if I'm unable to fix this, as tables are essential for the book I'm designing.

Thanks for reading!

TLDR: copying LibreCalc table to Scribus results in kerning errors

Flaxx

Quote from: chimaera on February 10, 2026, 05:07:17 PMHello fellow designers!
I'm having a great time with Scribus, but tables have been the bane of my existence. When copying tables over from LibreCalc to Scribus, I'm getting errors with text kerning that's causing certain characters and combinations of characters to appear garbled, or not appear at all. I'm using Monserrat Medium for the font in both LibreCalc and Scribus.

I'd love to hear if anyone has had similar issues, and how you solved it. I'd like to keep using Scribus, but I'm early enough in my layout that I'm happy to use something else if I'm unable to fix this, as tables are essential for the book I'm designing.

Thanks for reading!

TLDR: copying LibreCalc table to Scribus results in kerning errors

I'm using a way circumventing such problems, but it might be too complicated:

First I'm exporting the table to PDF,First I'm exporting the table to pdf. Then I load the resulting PDF in Inkscape, mark and group the table I want and export it again as pdf (just the marked area).
Finally I import it in Scribus (no text, pure graphics - unfortunately Scribus still can't handle the text.). If necessary I treat the final export with OCR, keeping the pictured table perfectly readable as it is.