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#71
General Discussion / Re: Cannot change font in styl...
Last post by sersha - December 22, 2025, 11:36:53 AM
Thanks a million! That was it. Somewhere I missed the direct formatting...
#72
General Discussion / Re: Cannot change font in styl...
Last post by utnik - December 22, 2025, 01:32:33 AM
hi sersha

your .sla file contains some direct formatting which overrides the character styles. you can remove the direct formatting for the active selection with the button on the right side of the style name in the 'text properties'.

utnik
#73
General Discussion / Cannot change font in styles -...
Last post by sersha - December 21, 2025, 11:30:43 PM
I compiled Scribus 1.7.2 and happily imported styled .odt text, consisting of 4 lines of Liberation Serif - in Normal, Italics (style Emphasis), Bold (Strong Emphasis) and Bold Italics (Strong Italics).
Everything looked just fine, with spaces preserved and styles correctly applied.
The problem manifested, when I tried to change fonts in styles. It shows another chosen font, but it did not change it. Saving, closing, reloading did not help either.
On the other hand, change of the size reflected immediately upon pressing Apply button.
#74
Linux / Re: compiling 1.7.2 with QT 6....
Last post by sersha - December 21, 2025, 10:01:52 PM
 I did those amendments and found after that in my QT installation this was not installed by default:
"Failed to find required Qt component "Core5Compat""
After the addition via maintenance for QT Scribus compiled just fine, taking in QT version 6.10.1 as desired. Thank you very much!
#75
Beginner Talk / Re: Is there a place where we ...
Last post by IanicM - December 21, 2025, 04:11:18 PM
Excellent!

I tried this and it works wonderfully. Thanks!  :D
#76
Beginner Talk / Re: Is there a place where we ...
Last post by utnik - December 21, 2025, 02:41:20 PM
hi ianic

you should define a character style for your shadowed text and set the values there. (i don't know of a place to define the default for this. but as i never use text shadows, i didn't really search for it...)

utnik
#77
Beginner Talk / Is there a place where we can ...
Last post by IanicM - December 21, 2025, 12:44:44 PM
By default the values of the shadowed text are set at 5.00 and -5.00 ( see screenshot )

Is there a place where the default values are set?

So far, each time I want this applied on a word I have to change the values manually to  3 ad -3. Its quite a chore.

I've search this forum + the Scribus help and didn't find anything.

#78
Linux / Re: compiling 1.7.2 with QT 6....
Last post by MrB - December 21, 2025, 03:16:43 AM
Hi

You want to set the Qt Path with -DQT_PREFIX="/path/to/Qt" and I don't think you want to include the lib at the end of the path

Craig
#79
Linux / compiling 1.7.2 with QT 6.10
Last post by sersha - December 20, 2025, 11:05:42 PM
I am using Linux Mint 22.2 as my main OS. The version of QT available there is 6.4.2.
For the cure of an irritating bug (disappearing spaces upon importing ODT files), I would need to compile Scribus with QT greater than 6.5.
I installed the latest version available, which is 6.10.1 in my own home directory. qmake reports:

~/Qt/6.10.1/gcc_64/bin$ ./qmake -v
QMake version 3.1
Using Qt version 6.10.1 in /home/s/Qt/6.10.1/gcc_64/lib

Compilation works, after installing quite some dependencies, Scribus runs nicely, but the resulting version is still using QT 6.4.2.

I enclose the invocation line I was using:
cmake -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/home/s/Qt/6.10.1/gcc_64/bin/ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/home/s/bin/scribus-custom -DWANT_GUI_LANG="en_US" ..

Obviously, I am doing something wrong! I would appreciate enormously a bit of a good advice, so want to thank in advance for word of support.
With best regards, S.
#80
Beginner Talk / Re: Tuturials...Again?
Last post by a.l.e - December 20, 2025, 09:04:16 PM
A few months ago, I've started collecting some notes on existing Scribus tutorials:

  • I've started watching Tj's Scribus lessons and from my notes it does not seem that I was overly enthusiastic about it. But I have only reviewed the first three chapters.
  • Graphic Design For Free: I generally liked. I have a very detailed list of what I liked and what I did not  like.
  • I really did not like Getting Started with Scribus by Top CLAX

My comments are here https://github.com/aoloe/scribus-manual-tutorials/ ... and I wonder what would be a good way to publish them and

  • Help people to find out which tutorial is good for them.
  • Have some sort of "Errata" for current version of Scribus.