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#1
Linux / Re: Scribus 1.6.4 Setting F...
Last post by AdmFubar - Today at 05:19:39 PM
In the Edit menu, look for Colors & Fills, in the window that opens, about midway down on the right is a drop down button, marked Scribus Basic. Click that and you should see a list of additional colors to add.Keep in mind you will merge the whole palette of colors, some are rather lengthy.

Registration is used for making registration marks when making 4 color separations so the plates line up in the printing process.


You can add and edit colors from this window as well.
#3
Beginner Talk / Re: Page numbers and other beg...
Last post by a.l.e - Today at 10:53:04 AM
  • I'm working on a solution to the bold / italic issue... but it's not as simple as you think : - )
  • There are tickets for asking a fix for that "Apply" button. I feel your pain.
  • Yes, in the normal case, bitmap images are linked into the frames.
  • Importing styled text is a big issue, yes. There is working going on to improve that.

Indeed, depending on how a person is used to work, getting into Scribus can be painful. Sorry for it.
#4
Beginner Talk / Re: Page numbers and other beg...
Last post by DBoydNL - Today at 10:42:20 AM
I will have to work on that whole "layer" thing.

I updated a graphic file, and when I switched to Scribus the graphic was updated, so I guess linking graphics is standard?

I really miss the Bold / Italics / Underline buttons. I can't imagine why the programmers didn't include them. Those are pretty much standard in... well: EVERY OTHER PROGRAM! Also: why, oh why, are the icons/buttons on the taskbar so horribly tiny? And why do some of them not have a "card" to identify what they are for? The edit text tool/screen is horribly tiny too. Selecting styles per paragraph is next to impossible to do "on the fly".

On the Style management screen, there is a button that has been translated from presumably "Apply" ("Toepassen" in Dutch). That makes it seem like pressing that button is going to apply the style to the preselected text or paragraph. It took me 20 minutes to realize that it intended as "Apply Changes to this Style". Perhaps in English it is "Apply changes" (which is still unclear, but not quite as bad). In Dutch that would be "Wijzigingen Toepassen" which is WAY too many letters for a button. But this button name is entirely misleading.

I formatted a Word file with specific Styles for each different paragraph. When I selected that text file for a Text Frame, none of those styles imported correctly and I had to manually reformat the entire 4 page document. Ugh!
I am wasting so much time conquering things that are not intuitive in Scribus. As said, I have used 3 different DTP programs, and NONE of them were this difficult to figure out. I know: read the manual. Problem is, I am on a deadline.

David
#5
General Discussion / April 2025
Last post by a.l.e - Today at 09:50:47 AM
In April we have seen several fixes for specific annoyances, but only few and (small) improvements that deserve to be singled out:

  • Addressing some of the lost of content, when importing from LibreOffice Writer (ODT) documents
  • A script that fixes the Hairline width: https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=9054
  • Hyphenation exceptions and ignore lists: allow to add and remove multiple entries at once
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#6
Linux / Re: Scribus 1.6.4 Setting F...
Last post by sswcharlie - Today at 05:27:47 AM
Thanks   AdmFubar

Works great now I know what to look for. 

In the colors & effects in the Contents Properties,  what does 'Registration'  mean?
I cannot get any colors other than black.  How do I get 'red'.  Cannot get the full palette to show up.

Thanks

Charles
#7
Linux / Re: Scribus 1.6.4 Setting F...
Last post by AdmFubar - Today at 04:39:16 AM
You need the Content Properties panel, press F3.
#8
Linux / Scribus 1.6.4 Setting Font ...
Last post by sswcharlie - Today at 02:42:31 AM
Hi
Using 1.6.4

When trying to select font options I cannot locate on the F2 drop down and reference to 'Text'.  Is there a tool to include options into this drop down?  The text options will need to be added. Have looked on many places but I cannot locate a specific 1.6.4    written or video tutorial on the setting of fonts etc via the F2 drop down.  No mention of adding the text options to the drop down.

Iam sure it is easy to change fonts etc but at the moment I am not getting the correct icons or options to use.
Thankyou
Charles
#9
Beginner Talk / Re: re: Barcode creation withi...
Last post by tisdav - May 14, 2025, 09:12:59 PM
Hi, for me when I first opened scribus on windows the barcode option was not there.

I read the plugin description, and that said that it uses ghostscript to generate the barcodes.
Once I installed it, then restarted scribus the option appeared.

https://ghostscript.com/releases/gsdnld.html

hope it helps
#10
Beginner Talk / Re: Page numbers and other beg...
Last post by prcek - May 14, 2025, 01:53:47 PM
Layers are in dockable toolbox window (or how it is called)
It can be shown/hidden by Windows->Layers (F6)  - Vensters -> Lagen
There is a [ + ] button to add a new layer and arrows to move it up/down in the layer stack.

I'm beginer as well, so take my answers with a grain of salt, please.

It seems to me that layers are global to document so it does not matter if they're applied in Master page or somewhere else.

Bold/Italic - I personally define a bunch of paragraph/character styles and use styles for it. They're hierarchical and can inherit everything from "default" and overwrite just "bold". So in case I later decide to use a different font I can change just the default and don't have to reformat the document or if I need to switch highlighting from bold to italic I just edit my "highlight" character style and don't need to go over everything again.