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General Discussion / Is Typography an Art or a Scie...
Last post by GregoryZef - Today at 12:48:13 PM
In the realm of Scribus and beyond, where does the line blur between artistic expression and technical precision in typography? Can a typographer's choices be purely subjective, or must they adhere to scientific principles to achieve effective communication? Let's explore the balance between creativity and functionality in our designs.
#2
I picked up Scribus at the start of the year and have been working on a project that requires the use of emoji (they appear in submissions that I'm publishing in a sort of magazine). I have tried *several* emoji fonts but all of them that use colour consistently have issues. It appears that Scribus doesn't support SVG fonts, so I've tried fonts which use the COLRv0 and COLRv1 formats instead. COLRv1 seems to be pretty much totally non-functional, but with OpenMoji's COLRv0 version, I was able to get everything rendering properly in the editor window. However, when I export to pdf, none of the emojis appear at all. There is an invisible character though, which when copied and pasted into some other place with emoji support appears as some other characters and diacritics (I've had various combinations of Latin and Greek characters).

I'm using Scribus 1.6.3 on Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS. I have access to a Windows machine, could the OS or some interaction between Scribus and Ubuntu be the issue? Any help would be deeply appreciated!
#3
Beginner Talk / Re: Image croping and scailing...
Last post by Nermander - Today at 09:15:51 AM
If I don't recall wrong you cannot really "crop" the image, what you can do is make the image frame smaller than the image (so only a part of it is visible). This gives the same appearance as cropping, however it is useful to be aware of the the full image will be in the generated PDF, even if only part of it is visible.

But I think the issue here might be that in older versions there was just one properties panel, now there are two. One for the object and one for the contents.
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Beginner Talk / Re: Image croping and scailing...
Last post by a.l.e - June 14, 2025, 09:19:59 PM
the details might depend on the version of scribus you're using.

but the basics are the same:

  • you should have "Content palette" somewhere (or a properties palette with an "image" section)
  • you can double click on an image frame and move around the image inside of it.
  • or you can press the "e" key to enter the edit mode and move the image around.
  • currently, i'm not aware of any way to scale the image (inside of the frame) with the mouse, but you can scroll the percentage in the horizontal / vertical scale in the dimensions part of the image properties (in the Properties or Content palette...)

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#5
Beginner Talk / Image croping and scailing!
Last post by Carl_bach - June 14, 2025, 06:58:47 PM
I have downloaded the software onto a Mac using an M1 Pro.

Having had enough of Mac's no right to repair and other rubbish, I'm looking to go Linux, so I'm trying out software that I think can replace Affinity Suite. I'm a freelance designer, and I dumped Adobe and more for Affinity a couple of years ago. I would stick with Affinity in the future, but they don't release for Linux.

I have been on YouTube to watch some tutorials.

It appears that to crop an image inside an image box you should open properties and go to image. There is no image inside the properties panel. Am I doing something wrong, has the software changed, or is it because I'm using a Mac?

Can anyone advise?

Many thanks.
#6
Layout Issues / Re: Struggling with the book t...
Last post by sersha - June 14, 2025, 08:48:23 AM
Quote from: Aleks100 on June 13, 2025, 04:49:17 PMSupport author, buy his book
https://www.amazon.com/Scribus-1-5-Essential-Guide-running/dp/B0BW2GGHWS

I am in no way affiliated with the author.
I bought this book and have the same opinion. Well done, with nice tactile feeling too. The author is pleasant to communicate with.
#7
Layout Issues / Re: Struggling with the book t...
Last post by Aleks100 - June 13, 2025, 04:49:17 PM
Support author, buy his book
https://www.amazon.com/Scribus-1-5-Essential-Guide-running/dp/B0BW2GGHWS

I am in no way affiliated with the author.
#8
Layout Issues / Re: Struggling with the book t...
Last post by SciFi - June 13, 2025, 09:08:27 AM
Quote from: sersha on June 25, 2024, 06:17:25 AMYou should use Sections to structure the pagination. Here is a good video on the topic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ792oi1rOk
Hope it helps!
Regards, S.

I'm so glad I clicked that Yt link, that answered a poopload of questions I was stumbling around for.
Thx
#9
Layout Issues / Alternating Left-Right page fo...
Last post by SciFi - June 13, 2025, 09:00:25 AM
I have created a .pdf attached of what I'm trying to find and I hope Scribus will allow me to create. I would like to create a template/theme where each left side page of a book has a column of text situated closer to the spine, thus its right side, and each right facing frame has its text on the spine side, or left of the page.

Like a program I had many years ago, I'd like to be able to drag an image over the pasted text and have the text automatically move aside and reformat the remaining text pages.

Please tell me it is so!