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Showcase / Re: Tales of the Black Death -...
Last post by prcek - Today at 02:51:19 PM
Nice and interesting.
I'm the only one admiring the rats placement around the page numbering as they helped to spread the disease?
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Text and Typography / Re: Ten minute typo..
Last post by prcek - Today at 01:38:24 PM
Agree with Nermander.
The first four rules are worth to consider, the fifth is arguable and could be expanded to several articles. Wholeheartedly agree with statement that a good looking font does not ensure it is easily legible.

I guess there is a common rule omitted that is valid for most of books/articles. The goal of text is to tell a piece of information. Its look should support it or at least should not disturb. Including pictures, colors, headlines.
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Text and Typography / Re: Ten minute typo..
Last post by Nermander - Today at 10:54:31 AM
I am not sure I agree with the last item, there are a few good freely available fonts out there.

I really think the font choice could be expanded a lot, because there is a huge difference between how a font looks and how easy it is to read.

I once found someone who had typeset the same text with probably a dozen different fonts (all were high quality fonts) to make it easier to see the difference.

But those 5 rules are not bad, I think 90% of texts I read do not follow any of those 5! :)

Line length I think is the biggest issue, it is very difficult to read a text in 10 pt Times New Roman in 18 cm long lines (A4 with 1,5 cm margins).
#4
Text and Typography / Ten minute typo..
Last post by AdmFubar - Today at 03:03:14 AM
Just found this, thought others would enjoy

https://practicaltypography.com/typography-in-ten-minutes.html
#5
Text and Typography / Re: Another text formatting qu...
Last post by AdmFubar - Today at 01:35:24 AM
There is another possibility, it could be a bad font. Have you tried using a different one?
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Text and Typography / Re: Another text formatting qu...
Last post by utnik - December 13, 2025, 11:47:17 PM
hi sheba

it looks as some direct formatting overrides the style settings. but without a sample document it's just guessing in the dark... (you could reduce the document to the paragraphs shown in your screenshot of the story editor and upload this minimal .sla file.)
did you ever check the control characters as recommended by admfubar?

utnik
#7
Text and Typography / Re: Another text formatting qu...
Last post by Sheba2 - December 13, 2025, 08:32:15 PM
It has been awhile and I am finally getting back to trying to learn Scribus and am still having the issue posted about here. I am attaching three screenshots--one of the first page showing a bit of space (but not a full space) between paragraphs - which is what I want. Another shows subsequent paragraphs with no extra space and the last which shows the "story editor" indicating the same "default paragraph." I'm perplexed. I hope they come through good. I did go to the properties pallet and was able to find/fix "padding" issue, but did not find spacing between paragraphs listed. Any help is greatly appreciated.
#8
Free discussion / Re: two new editors coming soo...
Last post by Aleks100 - December 13, 2025, 04:39:10 PM
Big plus for me is that Scribus save format is xml, meaning it is open for hacking, while Affinitys is not.
Even Indesign allows you to export and import tagged text - Affinity does not.
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Free discussion / Re: two new editors coming soo...
Last post by Nermander - December 13, 2025, 11:26:14 AM
I guess the issue is Scribus allows you do decide everything, there are essentially no "ready to use" suggestions, which means it is a steep step for those who just quickly wants to throw something together.

But for those who plan their project ahead, develop a colorset, set up design rules, font choices etc Scribus works a lot better.

I have actually done "mockups" in Word, and then "recreated" those in Scribus for the final polishing and use, becuase yes, Scribus is not really good for "trying what works" design.
#10
Free discussion / Re: two new editors coming soo...
Last post by ernie - December 13, 2025, 04:15:07 AM
Quote from: AdmFubar on December 13, 2025, 02:30:00 AM
Quote from: ernie on December 12, 2025, 11:37:56 PMAn example: When selecting a color, Scribus expects you to select from an existing set of swatches, which have to be manually added in a dialog box; while Affinity and Photoshop also have swatches, you can just pick whatever color you want from a color picker, which has an available palette, if you so choose. That difference is distinct enough that it can cause friction for new designers to a tool. Affinity admittedly comes with its own forms of friction for InDesign expats (the whole "lock children" thing took some getting used to), but it was intuitive enough to just pick up and use like InDesign.
Check the menu entry Extras/Color Wheel.
While not as refined and RickRack it does the job.

It's also quite a bit different from some other layout apps, and that causes friction for curious new users, which is really my point. (Krita does something similar where it has a color-wheel style approach, but it can be replaced with a plain-Jane color picker for folks who want it.) It's not so much that there are always ways to do things as challenges in approaching those new things because of unfamiliarity.