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#31
PDF Generation / Re: [Q] Python script written ...
Last post by Nermander - May 13, 2025, 04:58:32 PM
Quote from: jirib on May 13, 2025, 02:34:30 PMWe have either single page or facing-pages (two only);

There is nothing preventing you from creating pages of different width, the setting you are talking about is just how they are placed on the screen when working on them.

So you can create a back matter page, a narrow spine page and a front matter page. But of course they will still be individual pages, so to combine them we need something more.
#33
PDF Generation / Re: [Q] Python script written ...
Last post by jirib - May 13, 2025, 02:34:30 PM
It seems to me that the whole Scribus functionality with respect to cover is limited: we do not have spine feature; in Indesign, IIUC, they put some pages next to another, so you could have: back cover page, spine page, front cover page. We have either single page or facing-pages (two only); Indesign makes this three pages printed as "spread" - we do not have it.

Even if one would create 2 facing pages (with first page as left = outside back-cover), Scribus, IIUC, seems to have a deficiency: it can't print both pages as spread, and if you print it with bleeds having 0 size for inside, Scribus would ignore this and put crop marks on "inside" even the bleeds there is 0...

Or do I miss something?
#34
General Discussion / Re: March 2025
Last post by nitramr - May 12, 2025, 07:37:11 PM
This patch is deprecated and no longer compatible since we added the new page sizes to the New Document dialog.
https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=17115
#35
Features / Re: Shortcuts for Styles and S...
Last post by AdmFubar - May 12, 2025, 03:38:29 PM
On keyboard shortcuts, is anyone having issues with scribus not switching to another set of keyboard shortcuts? it always defaults to iCalamus on startup on my system.
#36
Windows / disable "search for updates"
Last post by Serviceverantwortung AP - May 12, 2025, 12:40:31 PM
Hello team,
I have installed Vers. 1.6.4 on a win11 divice. Is it possible to disable "search for updates". if so, which parameters must be set.
thanks for you support.
best regards
Doris
#37
PDF Generation / Re: [Q] Python script written ...
Last post by jirib - May 11, 2025, 08:47:38 PM
Ignore this script for a while, please, it is very naive: it does not consider by design when you need a colourful cover or with an image spanning both pages, plus both the colourful "rectancle" (holding the cover of the cover) or the image must exceed cut/trim line! so, this script is maybe OK for black/white situations without a need to trim.

I will think about that and try to come with a better solution: one which needs to be done _inside_ Scribus (at least for the cover itself)...
#38
PDF Generation / Re: [Q] Python script written ...
Last post by Nermander - May 11, 2025, 07:54:32 PM
Quote from: jirib on May 11, 2025, 10:57:27 AMSo, it generates cover with 'cover_pairs'..., however, logically, it places crop marks and spine marks only on the first/outside cover page.

Ok, so the first two and the last two pages end up on the cover?
#39
PDF Generation / Re: [Q] Python script written ...
Last post by jirib - May 11, 2025, 11:24:02 AM
Quote from: jirib on May 11, 2025, 11:07:27 AM...
CROP_OFFSET = 6 * pt
CROP_LINE_WIDTH = 0.2 * pt
CROP_LEN = 5 * mm
...
BLEED = 5 * mm
...


IIUC, I need to introduce "slug area": CROP_OFFSET + CROP_LEN = <slug area rounded to next unit value>, eg. 2.117 mm + 5 mm = 7.117 mm, that is, 8mm.
#40
PDF Generation / Re: [Q] Python script written ...
Last post by jirib - May 11, 2025, 11:09:23 AM
Quote from: a.l.e on May 10, 2025, 02:56:25 PM(...) it might also be interesting to have a version that runs inside of Scribus and adds the marks on a dedicated layer.

I will do it when all things are clear ;)