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Beginner Talk / How to auto-center text frames...
Last post by BookLover - Today at 11:47:38 AM
I have typeset a few book chapters already, but I chose to enlarge the letters, which lead to the text needing more pages. That led to the text frames being uncentered. Is there a way to auto-centered the text frames, with a different option for left and right pages?
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Scripts and Plugins / Re: Adjusting Table to Frame t...
Last post by tanzeem - Today at 06:39:09 AM
when creating table the table frame could be larger than the table. In this case when i do "Adjust Table to Frame", the table resizes itself and fits it to the frame-size. In my case the table was small and had many crossed boxes indicating cell content overflows when i had actually tried to calculate the column widths based on the content, and applied the col widths to the table using
scribus.resizeTableColumn(col_idx, width, table)And I have to do "Adjust Table to Frame" to finally fit the table to frame, whose width/height were calculated correctly by me.


#3
Scribus forums / Re: Hyphenation Behind an Obje...
Last post by Stranger - March 25, 2025, 07:29:52 PM
AdmFubar -

Thanks. It's justified centrally, but justifying left doesn't change it.

a.l.e

Thanks as well, that's what I figured too. I was wondering if I was missing something... I can't change the size of the object, so I'll go with your suggestion and exclude words from those tiny places while placing soft hyphenations where I can.
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Text and Typography / Re: Typography tracking not ma...
Last post by Buch - March 25, 2025, 06:41:19 PM
Quote from: AdmFubar on March 25, 2025, 06:21:23 PMIn the two images, are these screen captures? or from pdfs? Would like to compare the win and linux pdfs to see if there is a difference.
They're screen captures from the PDFs. You can see that effect opening the PDFs with the same PDF viewer wether in Linux or Windows.

UPDATE: I've checked the v1.7.0 appimage in Linux, and the Harfbuzz version is 8.3.0, the same as Windows' 1.6.0. I've tested exporting the PDF, and there are no discrepancies between Win 1.6 and Linux 1.7.

How stable is 1.7? Should I upgrade if I want to work cross-platform?
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Text and Typography / Re: Typography tracking not ma...
Last post by AdmFubar - March 25, 2025, 06:21:23 PM
In the two images, are these screen captures? or from pdfs? Would like to compare the win and linux pdfs to see if there is a difference.
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Scribus forums / Re: Hyphenation Behind an Obje...
Last post by AdmFubar - March 25, 2025, 06:07:24 PM
are you using any justification on this text? (looks like it could be full justification being used) If so just leave it as left justification and see if that helps.

Does the "H" graphic have to be that large? If you can reduce the size some that might help.
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Text and Typography / Re: Typography tracking not ma...
Last post by a.l.e - March 25, 2025, 05:40:51 PM
i think that the only thing that scribus can do, is to provide release appimages that are compiled with the same versions of the relevant libraries as in windows and os x.

@MrB would that be possible?
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Scribus forums / Re: Hyphenation Behind an Obje...
Last post by a.l.e - March 25, 2025, 05:33:24 PM
what should scribus do?

if there is place only for less than one word, it cannot go over the borders and has to cut your word...

if you have an idea how to do it more gracefully, please write it down.

the only solution i see, is to avoid to have text in holes that are too small for full words...

(this means: using the contour around the shape and modifying it)
#9
Beginner Talk / Re: Printing a booklet?
Last post by Nermander - March 25, 2025, 04:30:37 PM
Scribus does not have any built in impositioning support, not even for booklet printing. The printing from Scribus is very unreliable, to the extent it has been suggested it is removed.

The most common suggestion is to export to PDF and use the booklet printing feature of the PDF viewer (most PDF viewers have this feature).

Another alternative is to use a separate PDF manipulation software like jPDFTweak to impose the PDF into a booklet.

P.S. I am not sure who lists it as the premier alternative to InDesign. InDesign has a lot of features Scribus does not yet have.
#10
Scribus forums / Hyphenation Behind an Object
Last post by Stranger - March 25, 2025, 10:32:41 AM
Hi Everyone,

I'd be very grateful if anyone could tell me how to prevent hyphenation of text placed behind ('around') an object (see attached image here 'Hyphenation Problem with Object').

If you look at the text on the lower left side, you'll see that some words are randomly cut off (AFTERNOON becomes AFTERN    OON; SOMETHING becomes SOM   ETHING...etc.)

Is there a way to prevent this (I would prefer the word be shunted to a full line instead of being cut-off haphazarly).

I have tried dehyphenating and reducing the length of words for hyphenation, but nothing seems to work.

I also attempted to tweak the 'text flow' around the object parameter but that didn't help either.

Would anybody have an idea how to do this?

Thank you.