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#81
Beginner Talk / Re: Beginner consider giving u...
Last post by a.l.e - May 04, 2025, 06:05:56 PM
I somehow don't understand what you mean by

Quoteit is important that they stay in place and I prefer to have them in the text rather than always on the bottom e t c.

You keep on saying "where they should be", without really defining what exactly means.

Anyway, my stance:

  • If you want to place your images at specific positions, with a specific size, then Scribus can easily do that.
  • Your problem with placing images is very likely a consequence of a wrong manipulation on your side, and probably not a shortcoming of Scribus (I don't understand what is going wrong, but loading images in a text frame is something all the Scribus users are doing all the time; there are even multiple good way to do it... but in your case, only the most cumbersome ones seem to be working.)

Of course:

  • Scribus is not the best tool for a longer technical book with many images. But you seem to be far from noticing the real reasons why that's so.
  • Still, it might be the best tool among the ones that are free and "easy" to use.
  • And there is probably no perfect tool for technical books (There used to be Frame Maker, which was told to be exactly that. But it has been bought by Adobe many years ago and I really have no idea what it's state is nowadays)

At the end, but -- I repeat and formulate it a bit differently -- creating about 20 pages of your documentation with one of the tools, might be more helpful for you to understand what are your real needs. Probably better than evaluating in a superficial way a dozen of very different software.

You're going to learn a new craft: it will take some time and dedication.
#82
Beginner Talk / Re: Can't select
Last post by Papa Mouse - May 04, 2025, 04:01:33 PM
Me so sorry ... yes of course.
Thanks for bothering to talk to this newbee.
 :-X
#83
Beginner Talk / Re: Can't select
Last post by MrB - May 04, 2025, 03:51:18 PM
Maybe you put them on a master page so they would appear on every page using that master page? You need to edit those pages in master page edit mode.
#84
Beginner Talk / Re: Beginner consider giving u...
Last post by Jensus - May 04, 2025, 03:48:33 PM
Thanks again for your advice. Yes, this is my motivator, to get this project done! I am passionate about it.
I think Scribus is not the right option, it is probably not optimal for such a long document with image heavy content. I guess it is more suited to text only or mostly, or one or a couple of pages with complex layouts mixing text and images.

It has been very difficult to find something suitable. I have tried Atticus (got my money back today, nice customer support), Calibre, Manuskript, Reedsy, Abiword, Calligra Words and researched Affinity Publisher, Papyrus, Scrivener (could maybe do the job, but complex), Poe-writer, Writing Master, Narrative Writer, Focus Writer, Ulysses (mac only), Dabble, Novlr, Etherpad, Ywriter (win), Quoll Writer and Blurb BookWright.
Scribus is very feature rich, much more than most of the above. However image handling is a problem, which was a bit surprising, for both Scribus and almost all of the above. Maybe such works are completed mostly in InDesign.

I just found and installed WPS Writer for Linux :)  Haven't done any deeper work with it yet, but so far it looks good, I managed to create a page with an image that stays in place even if I modify text before it on the page. It seems to be a free software and I will check it out some more.

LibreOffice and its horrid image handling is not an option, I need to have the images flow in the text, "where they should be". This is a book about analog electronics with lots of instructions in photos and images like schematics, it is important that they stay in place and I prefer to have them in the text rather than always on the bottom e t c.
#85
Linux / Re: Scribus Version for LinuxM...
Last post by RodneyLee - May 04, 2025, 02:58:54 PM
all versions of Scribus work with my Mint installation (latest)
#86
Beginner Talk / Can't select
Last post by Papa Mouse - May 04, 2025, 01:17:14 PM
Made successfully page numbers at the bottom of my page in little text frames and now I cant select them any more. :'(
#87
Beginner Talk / Re: Beginner consider giving u...
Last post by a.l.e - May 04, 2025, 11:47:55 AM
On the one side (the one on topic is here), Scribus is not made for getting the image to flow with the text.
To some extent, you can achieve that (inline images) but I would not do it for bigger images and also not for a longer text.
Scribus has been created to let you define how the layout physically will look like, not to define logical rules for it.

So, yes, Scribus will keep "your images in the right position": by not moving them by one single millimeter!
Or you can put them inline and they will follow the text. Step by step.
But this is probably not what you mean when you say "where they should be".

I really have no idea, how you plan to design your pages and it is very hard to give your specific hints on the choices you should take.

Personally, with Scribus I tend to work on rather small documents, where it's mostly fine to manually adjust the position of the images.
If you want them to "logically" follow the text, I don't know what can be called a good choice.
The last larger work that might be similar to your task, was completed with \Latex.
And, I guess, Latex is the only (free; or cheap) system that allows to get things to mostly be correctly positioned, to be "where they should be" (and even Latex does not manage it in every cases).
Probably, Indesign is also able to at least do an okayish job.

Somehow, I have the feeling that you still need to learn a bit more about the technologies you plan to use.
Starting with such a big and complex project is also probably not the optimal way to get into the topic... but since it's your motivator, it's hard to change that : - )

On the other side (the one about LibreOffice): personally I mostly go for images placed as a character or at a fixed place relative to the page.
If you want them to be at the top or bottom of the page, relative to a reference in the text, you're indeed a bit in troubled waters.
But do you really need that?
#88
Linux / Re: Scribus Version for LinuxM...
Last post by a.l.e - May 04, 2025, 11:16:03 AM
If possible, you should use the latest Scribus from the stable version (currently 1.6.4)

You can get there by using a version of Linux Mint that has the current package (I guess that upgrading to the 22.1 LTS might be a good idea anyway... But I'm no Linux Mint user).

As an alternative, you can get the Appimage for 1.6.4 which might also work on your current version of Linux Mint:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus/1.6.4/
#89
Scribus forums / Re: Téléchargement
Last post by a.l.e - May 04, 2025, 11:10:26 AM
bonjour

et voilà:

https://www.scribus.net/downloads/

qui, au bout du compte (et pour la version stable courante) va t'amener à:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus/1.6.4/

où tu pourrais choisir la version qui peut être installée sur ton ordinateur.
#90
Scribus forums / Téléchargement
Last post by oceliam - May 04, 2025, 10:45:18 AM
Bonjour, j'entame une formation de concepteur designer et dans ma formation je dois explorer 3 logiciels : Illustrator, Photoshop et InDesign. j'ai trouvé des alternatives au 2 premiers mais l'alternative scribus n'est pas accessible. j'ai toujours un message d'erreur au téléchargement : oups cette page est introuvable.

Pourriez-vous m'aidez svp ?

Bon dimanche

Océane