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#21
Layout Issues / Re: Help with image import and...
Last post by Carl_bach - June 19, 2025, 06:05:09 PM
Thanks for these.
#22
Beginner Talk / Re: Importing text with format...
Last post by Joop - June 19, 2025, 12:03:08 AM
Its probably very easy. As you know /b, /c and alike don't work in Scribus, its designed as a  real dtp package. This means that if you want a bold character or word with some font that you also must have the bold version of that font, if not than no bold. You have from Arial probably  the "full" set, this is the regular font, the bold font, the italics font and some more. Probably  you don't have the same with Times New Roman. Start Scribus. Go  to "File" > "Preferences..." > "Fonts". Be sure you have the "available fonts" tab. Now you can browse through the fonts in order  to see what is available on your system. You should have "Times New Roman Regular", "Times New Roman Bold", "Times New Roman Italic" and "Times New Roman Bold Italic". I'm not sure if I  deleted some, so there might be more. In front of the font names there is a tick-box, is it empty  or used. If empty then tick it.
#24
Layout Issues / Re: Help with image import and...
Last post by Carl_bach - June 18, 2025, 09:30:02 PM
Thanks to all. I will give this a try.

I didn't see the reply from nermander, I sorry to say. I was having trouble signing in for some reason.

Does anyone know of any good tutorials on line?

Thanks again.
#25
Layout Issues / Re: Help with image import and...
Last post by AdmFubar - June 17, 2025, 08:20:52 PM
You can also adjust the size of the image as a "zoom" that will alter the crop. In the content properties panel you can adjust the image by percent or dpi. 
Double clicking on the image should put it in an editable mode that you can adjust the position in the frame. there will be a blue circle and crosshair denoting this mode. You can left click anywhere on the image and drag it around in the frame to position it.
Depending on the size of the image and the frame you may not be able to see the blue crosshair to note that you can position the image. just try clicking once and drag to see if you can.
#26
Layout Issues / Re: Help with image import and...
Last post by RodneyLee - June 17, 2025, 02:35:04 PM
you can alway crop the image in gimp and save by writing over the same image and refresh Scribus and wala, the image is cropped
#27
Layout Issues / Re: Help with image import and...
Last post by utnik - June 17, 2025, 01:09:52 PM
hi carl

did you read the answer from nermander in your other thread?

recent scribus versions have two properties panels, one for the object itself ('f2') and one for its content ('f3').

utnik
#28
Layout Issues / Help with image import and cro...
Last post by Carl_bach - June 17, 2025, 08:09:39 AM

Having had enough of Mac's no right to repair and other rubbish, I'm looking to go Linux, so I'm trying out software that I think can replace Affinity Suite.

I'm a freelance designer, and I dumped Adobe and more for Affinity a couple of years ago. I would stick with Affinity in the future, but they don't release for Linux.

I have been on YouTube to watch some tutorials.

It appears that to crop an image inside an image box you should open properties and go to image. There is no image inside the properties panel. Am I doing something wrong, has the software changed, or is it because I'm using a Mac?

Can anyone advise?

Many thanks.
#29
Text and Typography / Re: Emoji render in the editor...
Last post by critical_hat - June 16, 2025, 05:24:26 AM
Quote from: MrB on June 15, 2025, 03:12:19 PMScribus does not support emojis or colour fonts yet. One for @jghali in the future..

Ah I see. At least there aren't too many, I guess I'll just have to go back and replace them all with images once the text layout is final.
#30
Text and Typography / Re: Emoji render in the editor...
Last post by Nermander - June 15, 2025, 08:04:14 PM
As far as I can see in Acrobat, the emojis are pictures and not glyphs.