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Beginner Talk / Re: How to change line size to...
Last post by a.l.e - Today at 12:48:16 PM
Let's try to get a few things straight:

  • Scribus has the concept of document unit, which the user can choose and change at will.
  • The document unit is used for showing "length" measurements to the user (afaik, behind the scenes, Scribus uses one single unit for all measurements; probably points)
  • Scribus has measurements which are shown in pt instead of the document unit
  • Everywhere you you can type a measurement, you can type any unit and Scribus will convert the value into the unit its currently using for that specific field

The fundamental questions behind this thread are:

  • Which values should be in the document unit and which one in pt?
  • Should there be other units that are "exceptions" for some measurements ("everything in mm, but height, because in canada we use inches for height" ... well, at least for how tall are people and how much snow is lying around...)?
  • Should the user be able to pick the unit in use for specific fields?

As you might already know, I'm for software that behaves well and I prefer to keep the customization options to a minimum.
Of course, sometimes, different workflows have different needs and we should make the work as easy as possible (you might have guessed: having dozen of settings is probably not "as easy as possible").

Let's create a basis, for better judging what can be done to improve the current situation.

Here is a list of fields that are not shown in the document unit but in pt:

  • font size
  • line height
  • space above and below a paragraph
  • baseline grid spacing and offset

You're welcome to complete the list.

Other units used by Scribus are:

  • degrees (for the rotation: should we have radiants, too?)
  • percentage (some like the opacity do not really have an alternative, but others like the offset to the baseline could also be defined in other units)
  • number of chars (shortest word to hyphenate: why not in mm?)
  • number of lines (orphans and widows: the feature does not work, but it would not be wrong to define it in mm)
  • minutes (interval for saving)
  • pixels (grab radius and snap distance)
  • dpi (minimum resolution of images)

Personally, after having had quick tour of Scribus for compiling the list above, I would suggest two actions:

  • use pt for the stroke (as already suggested above)
  • use the document unit for the baseline offset

On the other side, I still don't see the need for letting the user configure which unit is to be used where (since for the cases when other units are needed, one can let Scribus do the conversion for the specific case)
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Beginner Talk / Re: How to change line size to...
Last post by Nermander - April 25, 2025, 09:45:21 PM
Aren't points just 1/72 inch? Then to get 2 pt width you could just write "2/72in" (sure, it gets converted, but at least you can enter points).
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Text and Typography / Re: Left justified paragraph i...
Last post by a.l.e - April 25, 2025, 09:38:04 PM
Negativ nein.

Never heard of that...

Can you share a sample .sla file where that happens?
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Text and Typography / Left justified paragraph issue
Last post by sbungay - April 25, 2025, 06:42:30 PM
I have an issue where, with a single line paragraph that is left justified, periods/full-stops are appearing at the beginning of the sentence. So for example...

Copyright 2054 by XYZ Inc.

Will come up as

.Copyright 2054 by XYZ Inc

If I rewrite the paragraph and add a character, like this...

Copyright 2054 XYZ Inc. x

Then it comes out correct, and if I tell the system to make that character the same colour as the paper then it 'looks' ok, but that's not a fix that's a kludge, and if you send a document off to be printed and it has a white character in it that character WILL be printed.

Has this issue ever come up before?
#6
Beginner Talk / Re: Beginner consider giving u...
Last post by RodneyLee - April 25, 2025, 04:31:46 PM
you can also Drag and drop images into Scribus
#7
Beginner Talk / Re: Beginner consider giving u...
Last post by a.l.e - April 25, 2025, 07:14:29 AM
@Jensus , I cannot exclude that you're experience some bugs, but from my experience it seems rather unlikely.

The only bug I can think of, is the one where a document "steals" the context from another document, so before going further in checking what can be wrong, you should make sure that you have only one single Scribus document open.

And I don't think that a Linux distribution can mess up Scribus so badly that such things do not work, so it's also really unlikely that Zorin is at fault (whatever Zorin is...)
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Beginner Talk / Re: Beginner consider giving u...
Last post by AdmFubar - April 25, 2025, 03:31:41 AM
Can Zorin use flatpacks, snaps, or appimages? If so, try one of those and see if the issue is present. That will determine whether it is scribus or a zorin issue.

ANs what version of Zorin and scribus are you using?
#9
Beginner Talk / Re: How to change line size to...
Last post by AdmFubar - April 25, 2025, 03:26:47 AM
Quote from: a.l.e on April 24, 2025, 11:20:37 PM@AdmFubar The question is: which units are you actually using?

It does not make no sense to add an option, if everybody is always using points and for the few rare case they use something else they can easily type the unit in the input box.

Personally, I don't think that I've ever seen a stroke being defined in something else than pt and all the software I looked at, define it as pt.
Maybe if that option was available there would be more users of it.

Where I worked, I did labels for products, the labels were metric sizes, and the labeling software would allow you to use metric measurements for all elements in the label, including fonts. Made layout  much easier, at least I thought so.
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Beginner Talk / Re: Beginner consider giving u...
Last post by goldenbrown - April 25, 2025, 01:08:31 AM
Quote from: Jensus on April 24, 2025, 08:24:09 PMMay I ask something else? To work with chapters, I mean sections of text, which then can be rearranged. I have not found documentation about that. Can perhaps someone point me in a direction or say something about that? I have a long document with different chapters which I have not decided the order of yet. In a program like Atticus this can be done easily, you see the chapters/sections in a menu to the left so you can just drag and drop, but I have not seen something like this in Scribus.

Hey Jensus, answering your question: I tend to work with chapters. I keep each chapter as a separated group of linked frames (all chapters in the same document, and in the order they should be printed), not sure if there's any documentation about it, but it works for me.

You can create sections in Scribus, but you can't rearrange them as easily as drag and drop.

I usually think (and this goes for Scribus, InDesign, Affinity Publisher, etc)that's a better idea to have your content already edited and organized, and use the publisher software only to creating the layout. It seems that Atticus is a program to create epubs, which very different from Scribus (which the focus is mostly print material or PDFs). When working with a classical publishing software, rearranging chapters like that will mess up your layout.   

About you document being image heavy... I'm not sure how well scribus would take it. My documents don't tend to had a lot of images, mostly text.