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#1
General Discussion / Character or paragraph style t...
Last post by Ez3 - Today at 09:40:41 PM
Hello. I'm not a new user but I also haven't yet used Scribus "in anger".

I'd like to have the freedom to easily switch between:
  • ALL CAPS (already there)
  • Capitalize The First Letter Of Each Word
  • Only the first letter of the first word is capitalized
  • all words in minuscules. ever

As a matter of fact, I only need the last style with all words in minuscule to style some marginal titles, independently of how the text is stored. E.g. I'd like to be able to write:
"Work Experience" as in a heading, and then be able to switch between those styles, in a similar fashion to what the CSS text-transform property achieves.

Should I request the feature? Could it be done with a script in the meantime?

Thanks
#2
Beginner Talk / Re: Is it possible to print as...
Last post by Nermander - Today at 05:07:25 PM
In the PDF generated by Scribus, the page is defined by the trimbox (which of course aligns with the crop marks).

https://www.prepressure.com/pdf/basics/page-boxes

At least in Acrobat, you can choose if it should crop the view to the trimbox or show the full media.

If you want to imposition into a booklet and then add crop marks I think you need to do this with the software you are using to imposition. The simple booklet printing of Acrobat cannot handle this.

Note that for this to work, you will need to impose the pages onto an oversized page.

Edit: Changed cropbox to trimbox, I confused them.
#3
Code / Re: PythonAPI and groups
Last post by tropion - Today at 04:23:37 PM
getGroupItems() gives me the names of the objects in the group (if it is a top level group), but I can not select or move or manipulate these objects in any way. Objects that are in a group in a group are entirely inaccessible.

I submitted a patch to fix this, but I am not sure if it was intended behaviour

The captcha is broken.
#4
Beginner Talk / Is it possible to print as a b...
Last post by OnscreenLearning7 - Today at 06:13:27 AM
It is inconvenient that Scribus doesn't have a way to format a pdf as a booklet similar to how Adobe does it. For the most part I can get around this however I am stumped as to how I can do this with bleeds and crop marks. To my knowledge, Scribus adds bleeds and crop marks to every page, which becomes a problem when transferring it to say, Adobe Acrobat, where they include the bleed and crop area into the booklet format. This leaves white space between pages which can make things feel disjointed, especially when I have elements crossing over between pages. Does anyone know if it is possible to get your work on Scribus onto a booklet formatted pdf with bleeds and crop marks?
#5
Linux / Re: Scribus 1.7.0 Flatpak
Last post by AdmFubar - Today at 05:28:57 AM
It has an issue that seems like a garbage collection is happening. It hangs periodically for a bit, then continues. a few other oddities as well i need to sit down and use it and get back to you about it. Is there a list of new features for 1.7 somewhere that i can reference?
#6
Text and Typography / Text Frames
Last post by itsnota2ma - February 11, 2025, 05:45:42 PM
I am creating a fill form. Is there a way to automatically remove the frame text in a field when a user starts typing in it, or at least highlight the text so it can be automatically overwritten?
#8
Announcements and Forum Rules / Re: Scribus 1.6.3 Released
Last post by MrB - February 09, 2025, 05:55:48 PM
Just the minimum OS from 15 to 11
#9
Announcements and Forum Rules / Re: Scribus 1.6.3 Released
Last post by apastuszak - February 09, 2025, 05:45:11 PM
I see there is a new ARM64 build for Mac. 1.6.3_1. Are there any release notes on what's changed?
#10
PDF Generation / Re: Scribus File Not Opening U...
Last post by cdjr398 - February 09, 2025, 05:44:49 PM
utnik, Thanks so much. I did get it to work finally but I'm not sure what the problem with Acrobat was. So now I have a PDF for the website and another for the printer that will work. Your advice about finding a good scribus manual is well taken. I have bumped into the limits of my knowledge, actually that probably happened a while ago.  Thanks again.