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#1
PDF Generation / Re: Submiting forms
Last post by jghali - April 17, 2025, 10:10:54 PM
Hi,
Unfortunately PDF form submission is a weak point of PDF forms because form submission is totally dependent from the capabilities of the PDF viewer. PDF viewers embedded in web browsers have limited capabilities in that respect, so if you plan to have that form filled from the web, I would rather advise you to use HTML forms. PDF forms worked best in controlled environment.
#2
Beginner Talk / Re: Is there any way i can inp...
Last post by a.l.e - April 17, 2025, 08:51:52 AM
the patch is now in 1.7!

with a bit of care, users of 1.6 can:

- make a backup of the 1.6 document
- open the 1.6 document with 1.7 (as an example with the nightly appimage)
- add the exceptions and ignores
- save the file as 1.6
- continue their work in 1.6

just make sure that you first make a backup so that it something bad happens, you can go back to your old file.
#3
Beginner Talk / Re: Is there any way i can inp...
Last post by a.l.e - April 14, 2025, 06:33:39 PM
The question is: is a "Delete" entry in the context menu useful?

What is the context, when you are using it?
... Even "Edit > Delete" seems faster to trigger...

I won't speak about "Del", "Backspace" and ctrl-x.
#4
Beginner Talk / Re: Is there any way i can inp...
Last post by AdmFubar - April 14, 2025, 12:35:13 AM
One thing i'd like to see,  bit more space above and below the "Delete" menu entry, or an option to remove them. I find it is often too easy to accidentally shift your hand on the mouse a bit and you are about to click the desired entry and wind up deleting something you didn't want to.
#5
Beginner Talk / Re: Is there any way i can inp...
Last post by a.l.e - April 13, 2025, 08:55:49 PM
Last week, I've opened a ticket concerning the context menu:

https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=17489

As you see there, I like the context menu in Inkscape.

Your proposal above seems a bit busy to me. But, at the end, it all depends on what is the goal of the context menu in Scribus.

Personally, I'm for first finding a clear concept behind the different ways to trigger actions in Scribus:

  • The menus
  • (The accelerators to the menus)
  • The keyboard shortcuts
  • The action search
  • The docked palettes
  • The modal dialogs
  • The context menus
  • The tools toolbar
  • (The upcoming context sensitive toolbar)
  • (The upcoming style and format apply dialog, based on the action search)

Currently:
  • Everything but (most of) what is in the palettes is to be found in the menus (most of the time in one or two levels of submenus).
  • The keyboard shortcuts are mostly fine.
  • The action search correctly gives access to everything that is available in the menus for the current state of the application. And allow to trigger with some soft of keyboard shortcuts most of the actions in Scribus.
  • The actions in the docked (and floating) palettes are getting better and can now to be triggered an effective way (but mostly not with the keyboard)
  • I guess that the actions in modal dialogs are not triggered that often...
  • The context menu contains a bit everything what people have been wishing for in the last twenty years, structured in a very strict way in sub menus during the big refactoring of the menus a few years ago.
  • The tools toolbar contains a bit too many tools (and some important tools like drawing a circle are a bit too hard to discover and trigger)
  • (The upcoming context sensitive toolbar is still to be defined)
  • (The upcoming style apply dialog will allow to apply format and character styles with the keyboard and, in the future, might allow to also apply other text formatting, also with keyboard shortcuts)

Sadly, if I look at your proposal, I would say that only the first few entries in the Edit section seem to me to be a good fit for the context menu on a text frame (and they only deserve to be there, because they are always there, not because they are really necessary...).
Concerning the hyphenation, probably, (de)hyphenate text should not be there, but adding the current selection to the hyphenation exceptions or ignores, that might be there!
We will see what the concept for the context sensitive toolbar will be, but I could image that the (de)hyphenation could be a good fit there (on top of being triggered in the menus and in the action search).

But, again, without a clear concept on what belongs where, the thoughts above are only my personal impression and not something that would be good for Scribus.

Voilà, I will try to copy parts of this discussion into the ticket in the bug tracker...
#7
General Discussion / March 2025
Last post by a.l.e - April 13, 2025, 10:48:24 AM
In March a few things happened in the Scribus world:

  • The node editing UI has been greatly improved and simplified:
    node-editing.png
  • CSS is better supported in imported SVG files
  • The shortcuts for the palettes (F2, F3, ...) bring the "background ones to the foreground, instead of closing them
  • In the February we had the support for pasting formatted text, now there is also the option to paste plain text from applications where the default is to paste formatted text
  • The generation of "nightly" Appimages on Gitlab works again: https://gitlab.com/scribus/scribus/-/jobs/artifacts/master/raw/Scribus-nightly-x86_64.AppImage?job=appimage%3Alinux
  • Choice of dark or light theme on top of the auto detection (and other further improvements to the detection of dark themes)
  • Avoid custom font encodings when embedding TTF fonts in PDF: https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=17436
    This should avoid some "random" errors with online print shops.
#8
Beginner Talk / Re: Is there any way i can inp...
Last post by dante nirvana - April 13, 2025, 03:32:30 AM
I liked my last idea and don't know if it was understandable, so I've done a basic mockup with inkscape. Hope that now is clear.
#9
Beginner Talk / Re: Is there any way i can inp...
Last post by dante nirvana - April 13, 2025, 03:22:33 AM
Firs of all: thanks, you are now my official new hero!  ;D

Then: when will this be in the current stable version?

And also: about the context menu, I think there's 2 ways of approaching this issue:

1 - GIMP and XFCE desktop: just throw every possible option on the menu and tool bar. Obviously it'll not be as you wish, it would contain multiple sub folders.

2 - Something like Krita does, except I can't imagine what it would hold into it. Perhaps having a standard set of things and letting the user personalize his own context menu, where each section corresponds to a menu of the menu bar.
#10
General Discussion / Re: Window resizing issue.
Last post by AdmFubar - April 12, 2025, 06:52:24 PM
Found another program that has a similar issue. So it isnt a scribus bug. Now to track down the culprit in KDE.