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#1
User Interface / Re: Distribute Palette (furthe...
Last post by MrB - February 19, 2025, 10:31:32 PM
When I first built the palette, it was 100% the same as Inkscape's so functionality was the same across apps. Despite the recent change, I think we should consider that still. However, note theirs is now more complicated.

#2
User Interface / Re: Distribute Palette (furthe...
Last post by a.l.e - February 19, 2025, 10:00:35 PM
You really really want to put the horizontal and vertical groups on the same row! : - )

Jokes aside, here are my thoughts...


While doing the refactoring work, I had the clear feeling that there are too many buttons, and it's hard to understand which one does what.

I think that your change, with the selection as the default reference and only three buttons in the horizontal and vertical section is more likely to help the user to automatically do the right thing.

The references with the page and the margins are not really obvious to use, but it's something that is probably not used that often. For those who use it, after a few times, it will probably be better than the current way.

Finally, we're at the new "Mode" and the row with the gap: what about making the mode a checkbox in front of the gap input box (instead of having the two tool buttons at the top)?
It would make one of the longest row longer and busy, but the intent might be more evident, if it's next to it.

We will then have two busy rows and two very light ones that cannot really be merged into one... but it might work well.
#3
Beginner Talk / Re: Text editing
Last post by pierruel - February 19, 2025, 08:42:34 PM
Many thanks Utnik,
Now things are absolutely clear, I will be unbeatable on these matters ;-)
Best regards
pierruel
#4
Beginner Talk / Re: Farbprofil einstellen und ...
Last post by utnik - February 19, 2025, 08:58:02 AM
hallo krissi

das profil muss installiert sein (oder allenfalls im selben verzeichnis liegen wie die .sla-datei...)
ist dies noch nicht der fall, musst du das profil erst herunterladen – zum beispiel hier. (ich gehe davon aus, dass es 'PSO coated v3' heissen müsste...)
ist das profil installiert oder liegt es im verzeichnis der .sla-datei, dann solltest du es ganz normal unter 'datei' → 'dokument einrichten' → 'farbmanagement' auswählen können.

...und wenn du lieber nicht englisch anfragst, bist du vielleicht im deutschsprachigen scribusforum besser unterwegs...

gruss
utnik
#5
Beginner Talk / Re: Text editing
Last post by utnik - February 19, 2025, 08:33:08 AM
hi pierruel

Quote from: pierruel on February 18, 2025, 12:17:01 PM...if I click on properties I get a frame where I can trim the style of the text but I can't for instance correct errors like orthographic mistakes.
the usual way to go in text edit mode (or in content edit mode in other frames...) is to double click inside the frame. the handles on the frame will disappear and the cursor changes to the text editing cursor. now you can do your editing in the frame or apply styles to a selection with the 'content preferences' palette.
 
if you really need the story editor, admfubar gave you some hints to solve the issue...

utnik
#6
User Interface / Re: Distribute Palette (furthe...
Last post by AdmFubar - February 19, 2025, 12:16:56 AM
While you are thinking about making changes here.. I'd like to be able to align objects within a text column to the column edge.
#7
Beginner Talk / Re: Text editing
Last post by AdmFubar - February 19, 2025, 12:09:55 AM
I bet the window position in the config file is set to something weird. Two options here, navigate to the config file and without scribus running, rename the file, then restart scribus, open the document you want to edit and open the story editor for the text you want to edit. You may need to redo some of the preferences for scribus if you made any changes in them. When you restart scribus without a configuration file it will create a default.

You can also navigate to the scribus (or do a search for it) config, it is named prefsxxx.xml were the xxx is the version you are using. in that file search for StoryEditor, some of the values are probably set to something extreme. Mine loos like this;

<context name="StoryEditor">
<attribute key="height" value="400"/>
<attribute key="left" value="10"/>
<attribute key="main" value="-1"/>
<attribute key="side" value="-1"/>
<attribute key="top" value="10"/>
<attribute key="width" value="600"/>
<attribute key="winstate" value=""/>
</context>
 
Most likely the left and/or top values have incorrect values.
#8
User Interface / Distribute Palette (further id...
Last post by tim_occ - February 18, 2025, 11:59:00 PM
I've been thinking about the new implementation of the Align and Distribute palette and looking at the two sections, I think the Distribute section has some redundant buttons.

There are 8 buttons that control the distances between objects.

I think you could also add a reference selection here, and then just one button each for horizontal and vertical distribution.

The mode contains two options:
1. Absolute (enables and takes into account the distance input)
2. Relative (automatically calculated distances)

@a.l.e what do you think?
#9
User Interface / Re: Displaying the chains of f...
Last post by tim_occ - February 18, 2025, 10:56:22 PM
InDesign has a nice implementation for text frame linking. They don't have a tool at all. The text frame linking/unlinking is integrated in the text frame itself on canvas. I also like the key modifier options.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUP1kMsIYV0


Some time ago I made a concept of the text frame which is inspired by InDesign and other DTP software.

Scribus could have similar "slots" on the text frame to pull out and connect text frames. A more advanced implementation compared to InDesign and others could be to place the slots on different positions based on text direction of the text frame.

A text frame tool in Scribus could be used like a pen to draw a line from one text frame to another one to connect them. In example, if you have 3 text frames in 3 columns. You could draw a straight line from left to right to connect all 3 text frame in the order of drawing.
If the text frame tool is active, you see all connection on canvas. By clicking on a connection line, you unlink the connected text frames.

But the drawing approach is very similar to your proposal of text frame selection.
#10
Layout Issues / Re: Multiple layouts with same...
Last post by dragonfly - February 18, 2025, 09:31:38 PM
Have you considered ScribusGenerator Python script? I think that it might be a good match. Certainly I plan to use it in my workflow to customise documents. And if you import SVG you can customise SVG images further. Different languages and so on.