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#61
Scripts and Plugins / Re: end of MS PUBLISHER and di...
Last post by a.l.e - March 05, 2025, 08:39:06 PM
welcome to scribus.

a toolbar a bit similar to the one you know from microsoft is planned for the near future.

just for your information: scribus is a bit different than publisher...

many people do not have any toolbar at the top.

one at the left.

and properties panels + tools docked on the left and right side.

a bit like this:

scribus-ui.png

p.s.: the screenshot is for the development version of scribus. you should probably start with the stable one.
#62
Scripts and Plugins / end of MS PUBLISHER and discov...
Last post by trevor - March 05, 2025, 05:54:21 AM
hello,
following the update of my version of office (version 24),
i discovered that microsoft publisher was no longer maintained

in the obligation to find a replacement, I discover SCRIBUS

confusing by its appearance,
can we change the icons of the menu?
can we have them grouped by category like at MS?

thanks in advance
#63
Free discussion / Re: Heads up: free-software gr...
Last post by mnawij - March 05, 2025, 02:37:30 AM
What time and where on Saturday, I will be at SCALE then.

Cheers!

mnawij
#64
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?
#65
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...
#66
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 : - )
#67
PDF Generation / Re: Font all messed up when ou...
Last post by MrB - March 03, 2025, 09:30:25 PM
What version of Scribus?
#68
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.
#69
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
#70
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