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#1
Free discussion / Startup error
Last post by TondaSoucek - Today at 02:15:36 PM
Hello everyone. I have been creating a family chronicle for over five years and now, when I want to open the file (chronicle) again, the Scribus program reports an error. I have version 1.5.7 and I tried 1.6.2 = same error. It loads about 38% and then it says that I have no space in the cache - I deleted it and the problem repeats. When I disconnect the external drive where I have saved the photos, the program starts with only text. I reconnect the drive and the file does not open. Other files (other books) work fine. I am desperate and do not know what to do with it.
It says the error: "Scribus crashes due to the following exception: UNKNOWN EXCEPTION." It also says error number 5324 and 5188.
I would be very grateful for your help!!!
Thank you very much, Antonin Vltavsky
#2
Text and Typography / Re: Lorem Ipsum in Spanish
Last post by a.l.e - Today at 09:39:56 AM
As Lynn correctly wrote, many (most?) people are used to the "latin" Lorem Ipsum.

For a few languages, Scribus also has a localized sample text.

The idea behind it, is that it might look less distracting than a gibberish text.

Feel free to suggest a text that could be used for Spanish. The text will need to fulfill two conditions:

  • It should be considered a "void" text by Spanish reader (the person looking at the document should unmistakably recognize that it's a placeholder text).
  • The text need to be free of copyrights (as an example, the author had died more that 70 years ago; or the text is under a liberal Creative Common license).

This having been said, I wonder how useful / good the texts that have made it into Scribus are...

All in all, the best thing would probably be to remove all but the "real" one and allow the user to add custom ones...
#3
Text and Typography / Re: Lorem Ipsum in Spanish
Last post by rickvera - Today at 12:00:09 AM
I'm referring to the sample text option for filling empty text boxes. There are other languages ��available, but Spanish isn't one of them.
#4
Text and Typography / Re: Lorem Ipsum in Spanish
Last post by Lynn - February 06, 2026, 08:28:28 PM
So "lorem ipsum" generally refers to the latin-based sample text that graphic designers use to test layouts; which is intentionally gibberish so viewers don't think the text is part of the design.

The window for sample texts in Scribus is labeled "select lorem ipsum", which is a bit confusing. Are you requesting the latin gibberish be translated into spanish, or are you looking for a spanish language sample text?
#5
Text and Typography / Lorem Ipsum in Spanish
Last post by rickvera - February 06, 2026, 07:04:17 PM
Hello everyone,
Scribus needs a Spanish translation of the Lorem Ipsum sample text.
#6
General Discussion / Re: reference position of an o...
Last post by joseb - February 06, 2026, 09:19:36 AM
Hello,

After reading this thread and others, I thought about creating a script for Scribus that can synchronize the size or position of several objects using a selected one as a reference.

To run the script, the name of each object must contain a keyword (or two or three reference words...).

How to use:
- Name the objects with one or more keywords.
- The script will search within each object name for the specified keyword (the keyword can be at the beginning, middle, or end of the name).
- Select a reference object.
- Run the script.
- Enter the keyword.
- Select what you want to modify. For example: size and position at the same time... or just the width... or just the X position.
- When finished, all objects with that keyword will copy the size/position of the object selected just before running the script.

Attached is a GIF demonstration video:


The script is as follows:
synchronize_geometry_bynamecontains.py

I am not a programmer and the script is written with AI. I am leaving it here in case the team that develops Scribus would like to use it as a starting point for developing the function.

POSSIBLE USES OF THE SCRIPT
- Reference position of an object (X/Y) to the X/Y properties of another object.
- Copy the size and position of many objects at once throughout the document.
- Something similar or close to what master pages can do with editable objects... For example, if a text frame is repeated on all pages and we want to edit its size and position, the script helps to resize them all in reference to the object we select.

IMPROVEMENTS SCRIBUS NEEDS TO HELP THE SCRIPT
- Is it possible to rename many objects at once in Scribus?
#7
General Discussion / Re: reference position of an o...
Last post by drobble - February 06, 2026, 01:04:05 AM
After a period of absence... thanks for the tips.
I'm still trying to find my way through Scribus.  ;)
#8
Scripts and Plugins / Re: Assign a formatted text to...
Last post by MrB - February 05, 2026, 08:50:46 PM
I guess the question might be where is the HTML coming from?
We can add another function to do direct HTML import in the future.
#9
Scripts and Plugins / Re: Assign a formatted text to...
Last post by Alcantara - February 05, 2026, 07:55:27 PM
Thank you all for your answers.

I wasn't sure if I could rely on the "scribus.insertHTMLText()" function, but now I know for sure.
#10
User Interface / Re: Hyperlinks as text properl...
Last post by antoineb - February 05, 2026, 12:07:52 PM
Hello,
The links to the pages from the table of contents can be created manually. But right now, I'm working on a 56-page document. Adding all the links to the PDF table of contents is really tedious. And if the table of contents changes, I have to redo everything!

I would really appreciate either of the proposed solutions.
Initially, this simple option would be fine. See this small mock-up.



Thank you again for developing this wonderful software!