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#11
Text and Typography / Left justified paragraph issue
Last post by sbungay - April 25, 2025, 06:42:30 PM
I have an issue where, with a single line paragraph that is left justified, periods/full-stops are appearing at the beginning of the sentence. So for example...

Copyright 2054 by XYZ Inc.

Will come up as

.Copyright 2054 by XYZ Inc

If I rewrite the paragraph and add a character, like this...

Copyright 2054 XYZ Inc. x

Then it comes out correct, and if I tell the system to make that character the same colour as the paper then it 'looks' ok, but that's not a fix that's a kludge, and if you send a document off to be printed and it has a white character in it that character WILL be printed.

Has this issue ever come up before?
#12
Beginner Talk / Re: Beginner consider giving u...
Last post by RodneyLee - April 25, 2025, 04:31:46 PM
you can also Drag and drop images into Scribus
#13
Beginner Talk / Re: Beginner consider giving u...
Last post by a.l.e - April 25, 2025, 07:14:29 AM
@Jensus , I cannot exclude that you're experience some bugs, but from my experience it seems rather unlikely.

The only bug I can think of, is the one where a document "steals" the context from another document, so before going further in checking what can be wrong, you should make sure that you have only one single Scribus document open.

And I don't think that a Linux distribution can mess up Scribus so badly that such things do not work, so it's also really unlikely that Zorin is at fault (whatever Zorin is...)
#14
Beginner Talk / Re: Beginner consider giving u...
Last post by AdmFubar - April 25, 2025, 03:31:41 AM
Can Zorin use flatpacks, snaps, or appimages? If so, try one of those and see if the issue is present. That will determine whether it is scribus or a zorin issue.

ANs what version of Zorin and scribus are you using?
#15
Beginner Talk / Re: How to change line size to...
Last post by AdmFubar - April 25, 2025, 03:26:47 AM
Quote from: a.l.e on April 24, 2025, 11:20:37 PM@AdmFubar The question is: which units are you actually using?

It does not make no sense to add an option, if everybody is always using points and for the few rare case they use something else they can easily type the unit in the input box.

Personally, I don't think that I've ever seen a stroke being defined in something else than pt and all the software I looked at, define it as pt.
Maybe if that option was available there would be more users of it.

Where I worked, I did labels for products, the labels were metric sizes, and the labeling software would allow you to use metric measurements for all elements in the label, including fonts. Made layout  much easier, at least I thought so.
#16
Beginner Talk / Re: Beginner consider giving u...
Last post by goldenbrown - April 25, 2025, 01:08:31 AM
Quote from: Jensus on April 24, 2025, 08:24:09 PMMay I ask something else? To work with chapters, I mean sections of text, which then can be rearranged. I have not found documentation about that. Can perhaps someone point me in a direction or say something about that? I have a long document with different chapters which I have not decided the order of yet. In a program like Atticus this can be done easily, you see the chapters/sections in a menu to the left so you can just drag and drop, but I have not seen something like this in Scribus.

Hey Jensus, answering your question: I tend to work with chapters. I keep each chapter as a separated group of linked frames (all chapters in the same document, and in the order they should be printed), not sure if there's any documentation about it, but it works for me.

You can create sections in Scribus, but you can't rearrange them as easily as drag and drop.

I usually think (and this goes for Scribus, InDesign, Affinity Publisher, etc)that's a better idea to have your content already edited and organized, and use the publisher software only to creating the layout. It seems that Atticus is a program to create epubs, which very different from Scribus (which the focus is mostly print material or PDFs). When working with a classical publishing software, rearranging chapters like that will mess up your layout.   

About you document being image heavy... I'm not sure how well scribus would take it. My documents don't tend to had a lot of images, mostly text.
#17
Beginner Talk / Re: Beginner consider giving u...
Last post by Jensus - April 25, 2025, 12:40:11 AM
Scribus for long documents?
Maybe I should create another thread for this, but I see that some do not recommend Scribus for longer documents/books, is this still true or is it for older versions?
What I want to work on will be approx 300 pages and quite image heavy. It will probably be quite a massive document. I would prefer not to split it into several sections, if possible, but have it all in one document and be able to rearrange chapters.
Would you say this is possible in Scribus?
#18
Beginner Talk / Re: Beginner consider giving u...
Last post by Jensus - April 25, 2025, 12:26:55 AM
Thanks!
I am doing that, what you show, but I can not unlink textboxes. The tool just does not work! But I can work around it, by deleting them and adding new.
Then, I can not Get Image, the option is blank. But I can work around it by double clicking on the image box.

It worries me however that there are things that cause trouble like this, to me it seems like bugs. If already I am encountering odd problems like this, I suspect there is more to come, that is why I wonder about these smaller but annoying things..
#19
Beginner Talk / Re: How to change line size to...
Last post by a.l.e - April 24, 2025, 11:20:37 PM
@AdmFubar The question is: which units are you actually using?

It does not make no sense to add an option, if everybody is always using points and for the few rare case they use something else they can easily type the unit in the input box.

Personally, I don't think that I've ever seen a stroke being defined in something else than pt and all the software I looked at, define it as pt.
#20
Beginner Talk / Re: Beginner consider giving u...
Last post by a.l.e - April 24, 2025, 11:15:15 PM
If you have issues with working with linking the frames, I would suggest you to first activate "View > Text Frames > Show Text Chain".
Then, it's a bit easier to follow what happens.

I'm attaching a screencast showing how you can achieve what you're aiming at...

get-image-link-unlink.gif

P.S.: as far as I can tell, what you are describing are not Scribus bugs... but, at least for the linking and unlinking, the way Scribus is doing it, can for sure be improved!