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#1
General Discussion / Re: When to use Scribus?
Last post by logjoiner - Today at 09:04:00 AM
Use your browser to navigate to the Acrobat extract PDF pages tool. Upload the PDF from which you want to extract one page. drift hunters
#2
Beginner Talk / Re: Image frames with borders ...
Last post by logjoiner - Today at 09:00:38 AM
One option for framing artwork with a border like this is to simply frame the dinosaur game print without any matting.
#3
General Discussion / Re: [TOC] get an attribute dir...
Last post by MrB - March 18, 2024, 10:55:27 PM
1.7.0.svn now has a style based TOC generator that I added this evening.
#4
General Discussion / Re: Scribus 1.7.0 is looking p...
Last post by MrB - March 18, 2024, 10:54:38 PM
Quote from: OSDP on March 18, 2024, 02:27:56 AMThanks. I love this look. I would like to test it.
Alas "only" for the development branch... and download is unfortunately no longer possible for the moment.
How many year(s) for hoping download it from stable branch ?

What OS are you running?
#5
Free discussion / Spotted in the wild
Last post by a.l.e - March 18, 2024, 08:22:38 PM
ResizedImage_2024-03-18_20-21-46_1.jpg
#6
General Discussion / Re: Scribus 1.7.0 is looking p...
Last post by a.l.e - March 18, 2024, 07:04:04 AM
as usual, the release is planned before the end of the year...
#7
General Discussion / Re: When to use Scribus?
Last post by OSDP - March 18, 2024, 03:12:31 AM
If you're just creating projects for web, use the tool you prefer. Also Scribus if you want to learn it.
It is if your project needs prints and professional recommendations (margin guides, bleeds) that scribus is preferable/required. If your project needs a few pages/layers, scribus handles it better I think, even it's not really perfect.
You can manage icc color profiles on scribus. Necessary for professionnal print, potentially useful for the web. This is completely impossible with Libre Office.
#8
General Discussion / Re: Scribus 1.7.0 is looking p...
Last post by OSDP - March 18, 2024, 02:27:56 AM
Thanks. I love this look. I would like to test it.
Alas "only" for the development branch... and download is unfortunately no longer possible for the moment.
How many year(s) for hoping download it from stable branch ?
#9
Text and Typography / Re: Prevent linebreaks and hyp...
Last post by a.l.e - March 17, 2024, 11:38:04 AM
i've uploaded the "trivial" patch:

https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=10517#c51045

like the best wines, it will get better after a few years in the mantis cellar...

i've also added a short analysis on how the hyphenation of single words can be prevented in scribus:

  • it is possible to set the smallest word to be hyphenated for a specific word (or a character style) to 99 and avoid the hyphenation of a single word.
    this seems to be working for both the automatic hyphenation and for "extras > hyphenate text"
  • when "hyphenating during typing" is enabled, typing a soft hyphen when staring a word will prevent the hyphenation of that word.
    adding the soft hyphen when some hyphenation already occurred is possible, but the inserted hyphens need to be manually removed by deleting the letter before the automatic hyphen and retyping that letter.
  • "extras > hyphenate" simply ignores the soft hyphen in front of a word (this behavior gets fixed with the patch mentioned above).

this won't allow you to avoid a line break, since scribus does not allow the text to go outside of the frame.
#10
Layout Issues / Re: Adding additional pages wi...
Last post by lockheed02 - March 17, 2024, 10:25:41 AM
Oh I see. Pretty long lasting. I doubt there is anything I could do, there are probably more urgent matters on your plate.

Lockheed