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#21

User Interface / Re: Indigo UI: Outline Palette

Last post by tim_occ - January 15, 2025, 07:59:05 PM

Great feedback.

@bubu Inkscape was a good hint. They have a good solution for the icon cluttering mentioned by @a.l.e

Update:
1. On item hover you see all toggle options (visibility + print)
2. Only changed toggle options are visible

I didn't fix the indent yet, but I agree that the panel should be as narrow as possible, especially when (in theory) and endless nesting of items is allowed and each nesting has an indent.

After several years, I'm still convinced that deselecting the current item should not make the view in the outline jump around...

Yes, if no item is selected, there is no highlight in the outliner. As long as we don't have page properties in PP panel, it makes sense like this.

#22

PDF Generation / Re: Ridiculously large size of...

Last post by riczan - January 14, 2025, 12:03:45 AM

For the benefit of any future readers of this post, I found this interesting wiki page about compression methods and image resolution: https://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Image_DPI_and_Scaling,_and_Resultant_File_Sizes

#23

Beginner Talk / Re: Basic image questions

Last post by utnik - January 13, 2025, 12:06:14 PM

hi shauno

here i disagree with admfubar. in other dtp software this may be correct. but in scribus you can't insert frames on master pages and populate them on the individual pages.
master page elements in scribus look the same on all pages wich are based on the same master page. (the exceptions are variables like page numbers.)
there are different ways to add similar frames on many pages:

• 'item' → 'duplicate/transform' → 'multiple duplicate' → 'by page'
• 'item' → 'send to' → 'scrapbook' (a double click on the scrapbook item will place it on the actual page with its original coordinates.)
• 'page' → 'copy' (if the whole page layout should be used for some following pages...)

for your panorama images it depends on the binding. if you need bleeds on the inner edge of the pages, double sided images need more attention than without inner bleeds. but it's doable in both situations.

utnik

#24

Beginner Talk / Re: Basic image questions

Last post by AdmFubar - January 13, 2025, 02:30:26 AM

you can put image frames where you want. Master pages are a bit of a "magic wand tool" that will apply a defined layout to a page. So if your pages can be set up the same way throughout your book you wont have to manually place everything on the page.

#25

Beginner Talk / Basic image questions

Last post by ShaunO - January 13, 2025, 02:07:01 AM

Hi, Newbie here, liking the program and learning my way around. I'm a photogrpaher, and want to use it to lay out books that will be image heavy, not much text.
A couple question:

Do I put an image frame on a master page, or does it have to be on individual pages, not master pages?

Is there a way to have an image span across the gutter without a break in the image, for panorama images?

#26

PDF Generation / Re: Ridiculously large size of...

Last post by riczan - January 12, 2025, 08:04:10 PM

I think I may have found the major contributor to my issue: duplicated pictures.
I have some pictures that are displayed more than once; while these pictures only appear once in the collected output I guess in the PDF separate copies are created, one at each position in the document...
Thanks to all who answered my original query.

#27

Scripts and Plugins / Re: Is there a way to delete a...

Last post by a.l.e - January 12, 2025, 01:17:59 PM

Sorry, no.

I did some work on it, but the existing code for deleting styles is more intricate than I would have thoughts.

I still don't understand the meaning of all the arguments and how to make it work without being tightly bound to the Style manager.

I have not given up yet, and need to find some time to further dig into this...

#28

Languages, Translation and Localisation / Re: String Freeze Announcement...

Last post by MrB - January 12, 2025, 12:36:34 PM

It looks like the source file was damaged somehow so some strings were missing. This has been fixed now,  sorry. TS files in SVN are now corrected.

#29

Languages, Translation and Localisation / Re: String Freeze Announcement...

Last post by MrB - January 12, 2025, 11:45:16 AM

The release contains the latest files from Transifex as exported from the tx command. If you don't use those sed conversion lines (or some other regex replacement tool), the ts file will not work and give you a bad qm file, or none at all. You need to extract the ts file from Transifex, then run the string replacements, then convert to qm.

However I can see that some translations are not downloading from Transifex for some reason. There's no technical reason for that being the case that I can see. Very weird. The strings are not even in the ts file. Eg Number of Pages on the New Document Dialog

#30

Languages, Translation and Localisation / Re: String Freeze Announcement...

Last post by StephanP - January 12, 2025, 10:57:07 AM

Uhmmm, sadly I don't speak sed.
What does this mean in mere Transifex terms or Windows search & replace terms?

Yet, the 1.6.3 release IS missing the latest Dutch translations, which I think had been completed in time.