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#61
Free discussion / Re: Heads up: free-software gr...
Last post by n8willis - March 04, 2025, 03:49:18 PM
Hi Ale; good to hear from you! And very cool to hear about the Rennes-area event, too.

I certainly don't "mind" the mentions as far as that is concerned. But if they only exist in reply comments, I think there is a chance that some percentage of forum readers won't see them. I hope you'll also start topics for each one as it is getting closer to the respective dates. Maybe the dates or places would catch somebody by the eye as they are scrolling through the pages.

There probably are not enough events per year to justify having a distinct category for them, but what would the mods think about pinning an "upcoming event" thread or two, within the Community board section, for things that are on the horizon?
#62
PDF Generation / Re: Font issues with Blurb and...
Last post by a.l.e - March 03, 2025, 09:50:20 PM
Jean just committed a patch that might solve your issue:

0017436: Avoid custom font encodings when embedding TTF fonts in PDF
https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=17436

Sadly, it won't be easy to find out if this change will improve things with Blurb, since they are sending the jobs to "random" print shops and the one getting your next job might be one that would have been safe anyway...
#63
Free discussion / Re: Heads up: free-software gr...
Last post by a.l.e - March 03, 2025, 09:44:02 PM
And since you all have now opened your agendas, for those who are closer to Rennes (France), on Avril the 5th there is the

grapfiklabor.png

GrafikLabor 2025
https://grafiklabor.cc/

As far as I know they are still looking for contributions!

lgm.png

Finally, a bit more in the center of Europe, at the end of May the Libre Graphics Meeting will take place in Nuremberg:

https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2025/

Every user is welcome to join!

(Sorry Nate for having interrupted your thread : - )
#64
PDF Generation / Re: Font all messed up when ou...
Last post by MrB - March 03, 2025, 09:30:25 PM
What version of Scribus?
#65
Tutorials, Tips and How-Tos / Re: How to insert DocInfo fiel...
Last post by a.l.e - March 03, 2025, 06:55:18 PM
In the Scripter, there is getInfo(), but it only returns author, info, and description.

It should be easy to patch the function to return the other values you are looking for.

But I don't know if writing a script is what you are looking for.

But if you just want to have a value that is repeated multiple times in the document and kept in sync, you can use a pattern (some sort of linked scrapbook item) or define a mark variable.

You still have to write it down once (more) but then you have it repeated wherever you need it.
#66
PDF Generation / Re: Font all messed up when ou...
Last post by utnik - March 03, 2025, 06:28:29 PM
interesting effect! looks like a one-letter-shift in the alphabet...
...can't help – sorry.

utnik
#67
Tutorials, Tips and How-Tos / How to insert DocInfo field va...
Last post by Laurentzed - March 03, 2025, 06:08:27 PM
Hello,

I am looking for how to retrieve the DocInfo field values and insert them into a text frame.
For instance, I'd like to retrieve the document title value to be updated at multiple locations into document text frames.

I have gone through all internet references without finding some clear descriptions about to achieve it.

Thanks

Laurent
#68
Free discussion / Heads up: free-software graphi...
Last post by n8willis - March 03, 2025, 05:12:03 PM
Hi folks!

Long-time user here, first time on the new forum. I wanted to send a brief invite to any and all who are interested to join us for a "Libre Graphics" track at SCALE (that's Southern California Linux Expo) this coming weekend in Pasadena. If you aren't familiar, it's a realllly big, wide-ranging FOSS event that is family friendly.

A handful of SCALE regulars (and LGM people) have taken on collecting talks into a quasi-official "track" several times over the years, but this is the first one we've really done since probably 2020. Main conference site is here: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x/

This year's slate of sessions is a little different; it's going to be on Sunday (the 9th) and it's going to be tutorials: one on Blender, one on Darktable, and one on Godot. Sadly, that's all the timeslots we had allotted to us, or else I would have been doing a Scribus session on typographic grid systems (and possibly some other vector-y sessions....). And, perhaps a little ironically, the closing keynote on Sunday is by Leslie Lamport of LaTeX fame....

HOWEVER: there are also two other opportunities that same weekend - we have a BoF (Birds-of-a-Feather informal meetup) for Friday, early evening, and will likely wander off for food after that, and there is talk of doing a photo-walk on Saturday, led by a local. That's dependent on interest and weather, etc, of course.

Anyway, I know not everyone can carve out time for these sorts of events, but if you're in the area, please feel free to join us, or even better do tell any friends you know in the creative-arts space (not just the apps in the tutorials! anyone!) so they know too.

Somewhat regrettably, you do have to pay for registration for SCALE, but you do get the whole weekend of (no joke) dozens of tracks, and they do keep it orders of magnitude less expensive than corporate shindigs. If it's still out of your price-range, please feel free to get in touch and you'd be welcome to meet the attendee-folk for the photo-walk or a restaurant jaunt regardless.

I don't recall from previous years if there are any Scribus contributors or specifically Scribus-adjacent folks in the area, but if there are, please join us if you can make it, or just stop by to say hello. The libre-graphics zone is still kind of small potatoes compared to all the DevOps and SaaS-y content, so we really hope to make some connections and be able to keep growing the presence at this and other local events.

I think ... that's it. Please feel free to ask any questions or just reach out to me if you've got a comment to add. Thanks for reading this far!

Nate Willis
#69
Beginner Talk / Re: Precisely adjusting contou...
Last post by nitramr - March 03, 2025, 10:54:57 AM
QuoteCircular objects could have upper, lower, left, and right margins, this could be expanded to other shapes.

Sounds a little overengineered to me. For a rectangle, it is very easy to extend it in a different direction. But for all other shapes it is very complicated. Even for circles. Let's assume you have a perfect circle, and you just want to extend the left side. What would be the expected shape?

a) egg shape (stretch)
b) pill (offset)

Perhaps it seems easier for primitive geometry, but for more complex shapes it is very hard to find a good solution.

I prefer to keep it simple and just allow 4 inputs for bounding box method and 1 input to offset all other shapes.
#70
PDF Generation / Re: Font all messed up when ou...
Last post by AdmFubar - March 03, 2025, 03:28:06 AM
What os and pdf viewer are you using?  Are you using updated video drivers for your system?? (depends on os)