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#1
Free discussion / Re: [SOLVED] Writing a book wi...
Last post by Erik96 - November 08, 2024, 10:22:12 AMIt would be very interesting for persons with similar projects as yours if you could share your thoughts and experiences as you proceed with your book.
BTW: I am starting with a book and I am thinking also at which SW to use.
Until now I used OpenOffice and converted it to other formats. I am also thinking at LateX.
Thank you very much in advance
Erich
BTW: I am starting with a book and I am thinking also at which SW to use.
Until now I used OpenOffice and converted it to other formats. I am also thinking at LateX.
Thank you very much in advance
Erich
#2
Layout Issues / Re: Aligning objects selecting...
Last post by AdmFubar - November 08, 2024, 03:47:29 AMThanks for the clarification, I will have to check that. It was late and i was tired when i was testing these options.
#3
PDF Generation / Re: PDF Text Distances not bei...
Last post by MGD4me - November 08, 2024, 03:16:49 AMRe: Looking at the Adobe instructions for Acrobat, you only seem to be able to set:
Alignment: Aligns text left, right, or center.
I found similar information as well, so it looks like I might just have to accept that margins or padding is not an option for me.
Too bad...
Thanks for your help!
Alignment: Aligns text left, right, or center.
I found similar information as well, so it looks like I might just have to accept that margins or padding is not an option for me.
Too bad...
Thanks for your help!
#4
PDF Generation / Re: PDF Text Distances not bei...
Last post by Nermander - November 07, 2024, 08:26:23 PMLooking at the Adobe instructions for Acrobat, you only seem to be able to set:
Border Color: Choose a color for the field frame or opt for no frame.
Line Thickness: Determine the thickness of the field frame (Thin, Medium, or Thick).
Fill Color: Select a background color for the field or keep it transparent.
Line Style: Alter the appearance of the frame with options like Solid, Dashed, or Underline.
Font Size: Set the size of entered text or selection markers, with an Auto option for dynamic resizing.
Text Color: Choose a color for the text or selection marker.
Font: Select from available fonts on your system (not applicable for non-text displaying fields).
and
Alignment: Aligns text left, right, or center.
Default Value: Initial text in the field.
Multi-line: Allows multiple-line entries.
Scroll Long Text: Compensates for extended text.
Allow Rich Text Formatting: Enables text styling.
Limit Of Characters: Sets character limit.
Password: Displays entered text as asterisks.
Comb of characters: Spreads the user-entered text evenly across the width of the text field. If a border color is specified in the Appearance tab, each character entered in the field is separated by lines of that color. This option is available only when no other check box is selected.
https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/pdf-form-field-properties.html
Border Color: Choose a color for the field frame or opt for no frame.
Line Thickness: Determine the thickness of the field frame (Thin, Medium, or Thick).
Fill Color: Select a background color for the field or keep it transparent.
Line Style: Alter the appearance of the frame with options like Solid, Dashed, or Underline.
Font Size: Set the size of entered text or selection markers, with an Auto option for dynamic resizing.
Text Color: Choose a color for the text or selection marker.
Font: Select from available fonts on your system (not applicable for non-text displaying fields).
and
Alignment: Aligns text left, right, or center.
Default Value: Initial text in the field.
Multi-line: Allows multiple-line entries.
Scroll Long Text: Compensates for extended text.
Allow Rich Text Formatting: Enables text styling.
Limit Of Characters: Sets character limit.
Password: Displays entered text as asterisks.
Comb of characters: Spreads the user-entered text evenly across the width of the text field. If a border color is specified in the Appearance tab, each character entered in the field is separated by lines of that color. This option is available only when no other check box is selected.
https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/pdf-form-field-properties.html
#5
Code / Re: The Scribus releases: goin...
Last post by a.l.e - November 07, 2024, 05:55:30 PMSadly, no reaction from Craig or Jean.
Personally, after this discussion, I'd really like to see Scribus 7.0 or 7.1 (depending on the number of alpha and beta releases...) to be the next release at the end of this year. Then 8.0svn will start as the next development branch and will be released as 8.0 or 8.1 when it's ready.
Time have changed, and almost no project uses complex version numbers.
No even / odd schema anymore, either.
It does not have to grow to the crazy numbers over hundred of Firefox and Chrome, but there is no risk to have version 50 of Scribus anytime soon...
Personally, after this discussion, I'd really like to see Scribus 7.0 or 7.1 (depending on the number of alpha and beta releases...) to be the next release at the end of this year. Then 8.0svn will start as the next development branch and will be released as 8.0 or 8.1 when it's ready.
Time have changed, and almost no project uses complex version numbers.
No even / odd schema anymore, either.
It does not have to grow to the crazy numbers over hundred of Firefox and Chrome, but there is no risk to have version 50 of Scribus anytime soon...
#6
PDF Generation / Re: PDF Text Distances not bei...
Last post by MGD4me - November 07, 2024, 05:17:02 PMI kind of suspect the same thing. 
I will have a look through some PDF documentation to see if I can do any further editing once Scribus has created my form.
The downside of course, is that each time further changes are made by Scribus, it will necessitate this post-processing routine.
Thanks.
I will have a look through some PDF documentation to see if I can do any further editing once Scribus has created my form.
The downside of course, is that each time further changes are made by Scribus, it will necessitate this post-processing routine.
Thanks.
#7
General Discussion / Re: Description of a sla file ...
Last post by Erik96 - November 07, 2024, 02:36:11 PMI think this is a very good question. Understanding the XML file of the sla data file can be interesting if you want to "heal" a corrupted data file of scribus.
Also automatic document generation would be possible.
I wonder why for 2 years there is no answer to this interesting question.
Thank you all in advance for any comment.
Also automatic document generation would be possible.
I wonder why for 2 years there is no answer to this interesting question.
Thank you all in advance for any comment.
#8
Text and Typography / Find All Styles Used --- issue...
Last post by Erik96 - November 07, 2024, 11:20:36 AMthe initial author wrote:
the code above does work, but it lists all styles defined, there is no distinction if it is really used. It lists also the definition of the styles. You can sort this out easily adding another grep.
Would be great however to have this in the menu of scribus itself ....
The original discussion after deviates a little bit on importing styles ...
Have a great day
QuoteWhen reusing a Scribus document to begin a new iteration of it, I always seem to end up adding new styles as well as reusing existing ones. But some of the existing styles are no longer used in my current document and should be removed. But how do I find which styles are actively being used? I wrote a short bash script (linux) to find these:Code Selectgrep PARENT= <targetFile>.sla | sort | uniq | grep -o '".*"' | sed 's/"\([^"]*\)".*/\1/' | sort | uniq
the code above does work, but it lists all styles defined, there is no distinction if it is really used. It lists also the definition of the styles. You can sort this out easily adding another grep.
Code Select
grep PARENT= <targetFile>.sla | grep -v ""STYLE NAME" | sort | uniq | grep -o '".*"' | sed 's/"\([^"]*\)".*/\1/' | sort | uniq
the obtained output seems OK for me. Would be great however to have this in the menu of scribus itself ....
The original discussion after deviates a little bit on importing styles ...
Have a great day
#9
Languages, Translation and Localisation / Re: Transifex updates
Last post by MrB - November 06, 2024, 08:21:22 PMhttps://bugs.scribus.net/changelog_page.php?version_id=117 is the changelog but we have not written the list for the release notes yet
#10
Layout Issues / Re: Aligning objects selecting...
Last post by utnik - November 06, 2024, 12:09:26 PMhi admfubar
just tested with scribus 1.6.3 and 1.7.0 – it depends on how you select:
if you select the elements in the 'outline' panel one by one, the 'align' function works as expected. but if you select a range of objects (click on an object in the 'outline' panel and shift-click on another one) it will align relative to the top most element.
utnik
just tested with scribus 1.6.3 and 1.7.0 – it depends on how you select:
if you select the elements in the 'outline' panel one by one, the 'align' function works as expected. but if you select a range of objects (click on an object in the 'outline' panel and shift-click on another one) it will align relative to the top most element.
utnik