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#51
Linux / Re: Scribus Version for LinuxM...
Last post by AdmFubar - May 04, 2025, 05:25:16 AM
From what i can glimmer from searching online. you prolly get 1.5.8 (not certain) you may be able to upgrade to 1.6.

It seems that the latest mint version (v22) has 1.6.x available.
#52
General Discussion / Re: Story Editor - Font Menu
Last post by AdmFubar - May 04, 2025, 04:38:19 AM
Got a step closer to the possible issue. A while back my system wouldnt boot correctly. screen would go blank. thought the integrated video had died. purchased a video card to test if that was the case. (it wasnt, just drive loosing data) After recovering my system, I decided a few days ago to just use the new card anyhow. It just dawned on me to try out scribus while using kvantum. made the adjustments in the scribus prefs, and the font list displays correctly now.

this is the hardware that had the issue:
AMD A8-9600 RADEON R7

and this gfx card works with displaying the font list correctly
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

The question now are you using a separate display card or one that is built into the cpu?

#53
Linux / Scribus Version for LinuxMint ...
Last post by sswcharlie - May 04, 2025, 03:40:15 AM
Hi
Can someone advise which is the version of Scribus used for Linux Mint 21.3.      A link with terminal instructions would be great.
Thanks
Charles
#54
Beginner Talk / Re: Beginner consider giving u...
Last post by Jensus - May 03, 2025, 11:50:18 PM
Thanks ale,
I did try, but no success. What I can't understand is how to lock an image into the text so that if I add or remove text before it the image moves with the new position of the text within the frame. I think this may be something Scribus can not do, there was a bug report about this: https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=4831

I would think this is something very much necessary for many.
LibreOffice can do it in theory, but in practice it does not work and many have gone insane about LibreOffice inability to keep images where they should be. I have completely given up on LibreOffice and I think it is a piece of crap.

I did create text content with minimal formatting (I already have it), imported it into Scribus, where the plan was to add images. I could only do it, as I mentioned, by copy-paste an image frame with image in it into the text. But then it seems this image can not be edited in any way and I can not add a text caption. It could work, but it is cumbersome and a bit silly, it means for every image I want to include I must first create an image frame with the image, copy-cut it and paste in into the text. I suspect also there may be problems with this down the line, it doesn't seem the right way to go about it (possible wrapping or positioning problems, not that I encountered them but I wouldn't be surprised if it happened later..). But maybe I am doing it wrong, and maybe Scribus can somehow keep images in a text and make them stay in the right position no matter if the text in some other place in the frame is altered?
#55
Beginner Talk / Re: Beginner consider giving u...
Last post by a.l.e - May 03, 2025, 11:08:19 PM
I would dare to say that LibreOffice should be usable for this task. But you would need to use it in the "right" way... and it might be not obvious to do that.

Scribus can probably do it too.
But you'd better to first create the content, with "minimal" formatting in something like LibreOffice and then import it into Scribus for the final layout.

I would suggest you to work on a few (10 - 20) demo pages to check if and how you can achieve your goal.
#56
Layout Issues / Re: [1.6.4]Text doesn't appear...
Last post by a.l.e - May 03, 2025, 10:58:33 PM
Hard to say something, without seeing the .sla file.

The only thing I can think of (on top of a bad bug), is that there is a (hidden) text frame in between.
If you activate "View > Text Frames > Show text chains" you will be able to visually check that the frames are indeed properly linked together.
#57
Beginner Talk / Re: Beginner consider giving u...
Last post by Jensus - May 03, 2025, 09:48:36 PM
Mixing text and images - and locking the images to the text

I'll reframe my question. Say that you want to create a cookbook, a mix of text and photos.
How would you go about it in Scribus?

I am trying to put together a chapter of my book (which isn't a cookbook, but you can thing of it like that, text and images 50/50). The image part is very important. I just can't figure out how Scribus handles images in text. Say that I want to insert a photo in the text and have the photo move with the text if I edit the text above it somewhere. The image needs to be "locked" in position within the text so to say. With a text box this does not work, when I alter the text the image stays in the same position on the page so that now the photo and the text are out of position.
I tried to copy-paste the photo (actually a whole box) into text, then it works - the photo is locked in position. But I can't select the photo, change it's size or do anything. How does this work?

I found two mentions of this in other threads:
Linking images to text: https://forums.scribus.net/index.php?topic=991.0
Make image flow with associated text: https://forums.scribus.net/index.php?topic=811.0

In the last thread someone says: "Scribus does not yet have a good way to anchor an image to a location in the text. "
If that is still true, I am amazed, because that to me is such a basic and totally necessary thing so I can't believe how others can do without it. Is it really true? If so, Scribus can be used to make like magazine pages, like creating something like a flyer with one or a few pages, fixing the design and then it's done, not creating a longer document with both text and images, because it would be insane if I made a 100 page book with 50 images in, then having to add a section of text in one text frame and it is all out of position. Or if you change the font size and image positions and text wouldn't match and you would have to edit the whole document.
#58
Beginner Talk / Re: Beginner consider giving u...
Last post by Jensus - May 03, 2025, 08:15:47 PM
I am writing for mainly print, but also an ebook version.

I will probably give up on Atticus and demand money back (30-day trial). It seems it does not have options for the book sizes I want, which is A4 or slightly smaller. And I don't see that Atticus does anything more than a simple word processor really.
I have tried LibreOffice (totally awful), Abiword (crashed instantly), Calligra Word (totally unusable), Reedsy (too simple). I am at a loss.. Only Scribus remain.
Or I am actually considering getting an old MS Word, anno 2016 or older..

How would you do it in Scribus? - I have a 100 page docx document, pure text divided in 10 chapters. I need to get it into Scribus, from there add maybe 100 images and do some text editing. What would be an experienced Scribus users process?
#59
Layout Issues / [1.6.4]Text doesn't appear in ...
Last post by PinkBunnyClub - May 03, 2025, 06:09:30 PM
Hi everyone,
I looked for an answer on the internet but couldn't find anything related to this specific case...

I started using Scribus a little time ago after taking an introduction course at uni. My first practice project is a gift: we plan on printing a single copy of a friend's book with extra illustrations.

Near the end of the book, I ran into an issue: the text frames are missing a huge chunk of text, nearly half a chapter, without any gap in the text flow. When checking the text editing window, I can see the text exists, it just got skipped for some reason. I was working on a previous version of Scribus, so I updated it to 1.6.4 and a bit of the missing text appeared, but not the whole thing.

Here's how the text frames look:

Capture-d-cran-2025-05-03-173828.png

https://ibb.co/S4fNjjMz


And here's the text in the text editor:

Capture-d-cran-2025-05-03-174802.png

https://ibb.co/d09GYjBM

Additionaly, if I try adding characters after "Yes you did say that.", they do not show up in the text frame, but will appear in the text editor. The frames are properly linked together so I don't think it's a flow issue. Has this ever happened to anyone else? Thank you!
#60
Beginner Talk / Re: Beginner consider giving u...
Last post by AdmFubar - May 03, 2025, 04:19:50 PM
Quote from: Jensus on May 03, 2025, 01:07:24 PMI actually bought Atticus, because I was giving up on Scribus. But now that I am trying out Atticus, I feel it is very unintuitive and I don't like it at all. While Scribus is more complicated and I had some problems, it is more logically laid out. Not sure what to do now..
Atticus is geared towards ebooks, is that type of platform you are producing for?