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#51
Beginner Talk / Re: Color of guides and snappi...
Last post by kenerling - January 29, 2025, 06:32:05 PM
Thanks a.l.e for your reply.

Yes, I'm familiar with the align and distribute window, which certainly does the job, but as I mentioned in my post, it can sometimes be quite a few clicks:

Change to select A&D tab: 1 click
Change "Relative To" to (e.g.) "Margins": 2 clicks
Change "Align Sides By" to "Move": 3 clicks
Click "Center on vertical axis": 4 clicks
Click "Center on horizontal axis": 5 clicks

[wipes sweat from brow]

There are all sorts of workarounds, of course, so it's no big deal. For example, if the frame is the same on each page, the user can do it once then multiple duplicate the page as many times as needed; idem with an empty frame to serve as a center snap reference for the frame to be actually used, etc.

Still, I do feel that being able to snap the center of a frame is as basic as being able to snap its edge or its corner...

Anyhoo, thanks again!
#52
Raster and Vector Graphics / Re: Replacing images while kee...
Last post by a.l.e - January 29, 2025, 06:23:39 PM
sadly no

https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=5542

... it's aging well...

and, sadly, i don't have the revised version of the patch anymore:

https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=12253

... but it would probably not easily apply, after all those years.

anyway, without a comment from the team, stating in what direction the patch should go (and if they want the feature) i will not further work on that.
#53
MacOS / Re: Scribus 1.6.3 does not run...
Last post by dragginDaybrake - January 29, 2025, 05:17:58 PM
Quote from: MrB on January 25, 2025, 10:08:37 PMI downloaded it again from SF and it works for me

Strange. I had to download the non-arm version to get it working...
#54
MacOS / Re: Scribus 1.6.3 does not run...
Last post by dragginDaybrake - January 29, 2025, 05:16:38 PM
It turns out that the Arm build and the Intel builds of 1.6.3 of mixed up. So the non-arm dmg is the one that runs on arm:
scribus-1.6.3.dmg

And if you need the Intel version you should download this one:
scribus-1.6.3-arm64.dmg
#55
Scripts and Plugins / Re: Scripter: is LayerLocked
Last post by GBW - January 29, 2025, 04:12:37 PM
Hi, well thank you very much, I rearely find a genuine bug and hope this helps others.!
#56
Raster and Vector Graphics / Replacing images while keeping...
Last post by rumple - January 29, 2025, 12:11:49 PM
Is there any way to replace an image and keep scale and position?

The 'edit image' button is one route, but I have a long technical document where I can't do that.

(As a power user of QuarkXPress I'm sure that could do it but I've not used it for 25 years!)
#57
Beginner Talk / Re: Color of guides and snappi...
Last post by a.l.e - January 28, 2025, 09:41:16 PM
for centering, you can use the "align and distribute" tool...

you can even align the center to a guide : - )
or to the page...

not as "intuitive" as centering by snapping...
... but, on the other side, too much snapping makes it also harder to correctly place the items...
#58
Beginner Talk / Color of guides and snapping t...
Last post by kenerling - January 28, 2025, 07:12:03 PM
Hello to all!

I'm learning the ropes for Scribus and so far having great fun doing so.

I do have two questions (Windows 10 Home, Scribus 1.6.2):

1) At File>Preferences>Guides>Color, you can set any color for the Guides (Select color > Click OK to close the dialog box > Click OK again to close the Preferences dialog), and in theory, the chosen color should become the default guides color for all documents.

As long as I don't close Scribus, this works just fine, but when I do close the program, when I reopen it, the guides color is reset to its default color.

Is there something I'm missing, or is this a bug?

2) Is there not a way to snap the center of a frame?

When snapping is turned on (Page > Snap to Grids/Guides/Items), the edges and corners of frames snap as expected, but the frame's center point does not snap anywhere, with one exception: When "Snap to Items" is activated, the center of a frame can be snapped to the corner or center of another frame, but that's all. A frame's center won't snap to a guides intersection either.

Being able to snap the center of a frame would be extremely useful for, e.g., centering it on a page, or between the margins without having to go through the up-to five clicks needed via the Align and Distribute window.

Thanks in advance for any clarifications or advice you may have!
#59
Features / Re: Node based automation like...
Last post by Nermander - January 28, 2025, 04:34:35 PM
When I write VBA macros for MS Office (mostly Word and Excel), I usually record a macro when doing what I want to see how the code needs to look, and then I adapt it.

I guess that for me a visual way to write simple macros would probably be useful.

(I haven't written any scripts for Scribus, yet.)
#60
Announcements and Forum Rules / Re: Scribus 1.7.0 Released
Last post by AdmFubar - January 28, 2025, 04:38:55 AM
Finding bugs.
The object horizontal/vertical alignment buttons are mislabeled/swapped.  Depend on how you want to look at it.  The terminology used is confusing and inconsistent  with the wording for aligning text.