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#91
Text and Typography / Re: Article Title span across ...
Last post by a.l.e - April 01, 2024, 09:29:11 PM
personally, for such cases i like to:

- create a typographic grid (page > manage guides > column/row),
- activate the snapping to guides,
- use shift click to create frames that fill the "cells",
- and finally resize the frames to fit one, two, or more cells.

typographic-grid.png

i attach a trivial .sla and .pdf that show how it looks like
#92
Text and Typography / Article Title span across two ...
Last post by srikrishnan - April 01, 2024, 12:00:57 PM
Hi,

I have a double column sla file. But article title need to be spanned across two column. Now i am creating a separate frame across two columns and cut and paste the article title into that text frame. instead of that is there any possibility to span the Article title across two column through paragraph style?

regards,
Srikrishnan
#93
General Discussion / Re: Hiring Scribus Experts for...
Last post by Aleks100 - April 01, 2024, 10:44:56 AM
1. DTP paradigm is easy to grasp: "Put everything in frame."
2. This Magazine design is so simple that could be done in Xerox Ventura Publisher, and for sure it will be improved in Scribus - for start use Align to Baseline Grid for copy text. Baseline grid alignement exist in Quark and for some reason it is not used in linked pdf.
3. I don't see any reason to go from Quark to IDML and than to Sribus. Just do everything in Scribus.
#94
General Discussion / Re: [TOC] get an attribute dir...
Last post by MrB - April 01, 2024, 10:30:12 AM
A few more commits to fix another issue and code simplification in r26082. Your test still passes.
#95
Scripts and Plugins / Re: problem with execution off...
Last post by srikrishnan - April 01, 2024, 10:15:05 AM
I am using Windows 10 and Scribus 1.6.1. in my system "CalendarWizard" script runs perfectly. just for your information

regards,
Srikrishnan
#96
General Discussion / Re: Hiring Scribus Experts for...
Last post by a.l.e - April 01, 2024, 10:07:06 AM
yes, going through IDML, if quark has the feature, is probably the best way to move to scribus.

on the other side, the document is rather simple to rebuild in scribus and recreating it can make sure that the template is created in a way that is then easier to use in scribus.

also, at its beginnings the workflows in scribus were often inspired by people who were using quark, so it's should not be that hard to move to scribus.
#97
Scripts and Plugins / find and replace particular co...
Last post by srikrishnan - April 01, 2024, 09:47:35 AM
Hi all,

I have a scribus document, in that throughout the document "<italic>some text</italic>" are there, i want to find the text from "<italic> tag to "</italic>" tag and change the text character style to italic font say for e.g. "Times New Roman Italic". is this possible through a python script, within scribus?

if any documentation or sample would be helpful to understand?

Thanks in Advance,
Srikrishnan
#98
General Discussion / Re: [TOC] get an attribute dir...
Last post by a.l.e - March 31, 2024, 10:08:54 PM
yes, now the order seems to be good!

for me the question stays open, if it's better or not to mix the titles from a chain with other titles in between, but we can for sure wait and see if somebody brings a real world document where this matters.
#99
General Discussion / Re: [TOC] get an attribute dir...
Last post by MrB - March 31, 2024, 06:42:20 PM
Hi @a.l.e

Please check out r26077. Its all good now with your toc test 2 file.

Craig
#100
General Discussion / Re: Hiring Scribus Experts for...
Last post by dragonfly - March 30, 2024, 11:03:17 PM
Building on the last idea to import a vectorfile.
I assumed from OP that Quark was being dropped due to cost.

But I do like working with SVG and have been exploring text to svg. Although I largely work in  Ubuntu desktop, in my Windows 10 some time ago I installed VirtualMechanics SiteSpinner PRO. Although rather dated this has the nice feature of exporting multiframe sites to SVG.  This rabbit out of the hat might be another option if you are staying with Windows.

https://www.sitespinner.com/

Although I much prefer Ubuntu to Windows, I might create a Windows VM in my Ubuntu desktop expressly for the purposes of using selected old Windows apps while at same time drawing on Ubuntu assets. I need Windows to run an old Canon scanner, for example. And SiteSpinner.