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#21
Beginner Talk / Want to Get Rid of PDF Text Fi...
Last post by SlayerDragonwing - July 01, 2025, 01:26:34 AM
Hello everyone,

I'm new to Scribus and trying to create a form-fillable version of a character sheet for a tabletop game, and running into issues with borders. I have set the stroke colour setting for each PDF Text Field to "None", and when I print the file to PDF using Scribus the borders are not present, but when I Save to PDF and open the file in Adobe, each field has an ugly black border around it. Printing to PDF from Adobe also maintains the borders. How can I get rid of these?
#22
Beginner Talk / Re: Scribus not opening fully
Last post by PelesDaughter - July 01, 2025, 12:01:30 AM
Quote from: a.l.e on June 30, 2025, 07:35:38 PMre-installing the same version of scribus is almost never a solution.

it looks like that the scribus gets opened off screen.

have you changed the monitor? is it a laptop and you attach external monitors from time to time?

what you can try, is to let scribus recreate its settings.

you can try to do so by renaming C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Scribus\

Thanks for your response. It is a laptop but I have never attached an external monitor to it.

I tried looking for that pathway but there is no Appdata folder inside my username folder. However, there is inside of Program Files, two folders, one with the name of each version that I have had installed (for example, C:\Program Files\Scribus 1.6.4). Are you suggesting that I rename the Scribus folder to something else?
#23
Beginner Talk / Re: Scribus not opening fully
Last post by a.l.e - June 30, 2025, 07:35:38 PM
re-installing the same version of scribus is almost never a solution.

it looks like that the scribus gets opened off screen.

have you changed the monitor? is it a laptop and you attach external monitors from time to time?

what you can try, is to let scribus recreate its settings.

you can try to do so by renaming C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Scribus\
#24
Installation and Setup / Re: My Computer files do not s...
Last post by a.l.e - June 30, 2025, 07:32:23 PM
on the other side, it's likely that the files are on shared drivers...

and depending on the setup, scribus (or qt) has issues with reading those files
#25
Linux / Re: Scribus 1.70 was not able ...
Last post by AdmFubar - June 30, 2025, 05:40:04 PM
Your config file has become corrupted. Exit scribus, navigate to the scribus config directory, rename it. then restart scribus. that should fix the error message. if there were any changes you made in your preferences you will need to make them again.(paths changes, display tweaks.. etc.)
#26
Linux / Re: Scribus 1.70 was not able ...
Last post by mottechy - June 30, 2025, 04:50:42 PM
Yes.
#27
Installation and Setup / Re: My Computer files do not s...
Last post by prcek - June 30, 2025, 01:56:48 PM
I'm not a developer, but such bug report I would close with "Works for me".

I understand you're unhappy and want to ask for help. Please understand as well, others are using other computers, different setup etc. and don't know what you're using as long as you don't tell them.

So for start could you please share, what operating system do you use, how you've got Scribus installed, what exactly "trying to get to an Image I have saved but can't get to my files" means etc.? So someone else at the other end of the word could try to reproduce the issue or ask for more specific details.
#28
Linux / Re: Scribus 1.70 was not able ...
Last post by AdmFubar - June 30, 2025, 06:07:01 AM
Quote from: mottechy on June 24, 2025, 08:51:53 AMWhen I start Scribus 1.70 i get the following issue:

"Scribus was not able to load its preferences:
Failed to read prefs XML from "/home/(Usr)/.config/scribus/scribus170.rc": Unexpected ''. at line 121, col 39
Default settings will be loaded."
does scribus work otherwise after reporting this error?
#29
My computer files do not show on Scribus, how do I fix it? trying to get to an Image I have saved but can't get to my files.

#30
Beginner Talk / Scribus not opening fully
Last post by PelesDaughter - June 29, 2025, 09:39:52 PM
Hi folks,

Could anyone help with this? I am operating Scribus, which used to work just fine, but lately it has not been opening fully. It loads, showing the "splash image" and option to recover a file, but then it won't expand when I click on the icon on the task bar like one does when opening an already open program (sorry for my lack of tech lingo). I have tried opening files from File Explorer, and the same thing happens. I tried properly uninstalling the program and re-downloading the most recent version and installing it again, to no avail.

Image shows as far as I can get.

Any ideas?