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#1
Layout Issues / Re: Aligning objects selecting...
Last post by utnik - Today at 12:09:26 PM
hi admfubar

just tested with scribus 1.6.3 and 1.7.0 – it depends on how you select:
if you select the elements in the 'outline' panel one by one, the 'align' function works as expected. but if you select a range of objects (click on an object in the 'outline' panel and shift-click on another one) it will align relative to the top most element.

utnik
#2
Layout Issues / Re: Text Frame Content Vertica...
Last post by AdmFubar - Today at 04:30:50 AM
To vertical align text, select the text frame/column(s) and open the text properties window (F3), click the  columns and text distances, the first entry is for align text vertically.

I'm not sure what you are asking about in the second paragraph. Are these columns linked? If so you probably need to use a column and frame breaks. see the Insert menu from the main menu, fourth from the bottom. Spaces & Breaks.
#3
Layout Issues / Text Frame Content Vertical Bo...
Last post by matthewjralston - Today at 12:42:30 AM
How can I vertically align text to the bottom of a text frame by the baseline of the text?

I need to be able to have multiple vertically aligned boxes where text changes won't push the text up, potentially in one box while not in the other misaligned the text.

At this point I'm thinking I might but stuck top aligning, them programmatically balancing line returns but even that won't work if I need to bottom aligned text frames without identically paragraph line spacing.
#4
Languages, Translation and Localisation / Re: Transifex updates
Last post by AdmFubar - November 05, 2024, 11:17:53 PM
is there a list of upcoming features for 1.7, and 1.8?
#5
Layout Issues / Aligning objects selecting on ...
Last post by AdmFubar - November 05, 2024, 11:02:39 PM
Found an odd quirk I think. Was aligning objects in a previously created document. Was using align to first selected option, but noticed different behavior when selecting elements from the page vs the outline window. It works as expected from the document page, but when selecting from the outline panel, the order of the items from the top down denotes what is first. (top most element)

Can someone confirm this behavior?
#6
Scripts and Plugins / How to read the value of a rad...
Last post by titi - November 05, 2024, 10:15:19 PM
Hello

I am getting started with javascripting in Scribus and I made some working scripts but I do not succeed in reading the value of a radio button group.

More precisely, I have
  • four radio buttons grouped in a group named "gr",
  • a macro which on mouse up print this.getField("gr").value
and I get only the name of the radio button on which I have clicked.

How can I know which button is checked ?

I read things on exportvalue but I don't imagine how I can use it.

Thanks in advance for any hint.
#7
Languages, Translation and Localisation / Re: Transifex updates
Last post by MrB - November 05, 2024, 09:13:49 PM
I don't remember exactly, but I believe it went like this when we moved from 1.4/1.5 to 1.6 (from 1.5) / 1.7 (from 1.5):
- Rename ScribusStable to Scribus 1.4.x
- Copy Scribus to ScribusStable
- Introduce Scribus based on the same.

I'm not sure how to combine suggestions between the two. I don't think you need to check all texts though. I hope that 1.6.x will not have a tremendously long life. The advances in 1.7 suggest to me we're more heading to 1.8.
#8
PDF Generation / Re: PDF Text Distances not bei...
Last post by Nermander - November 05, 2024, 04:47:09 PM
I suspect that the Scribus settings for text fields are not included in the PDF. The PDF form fields are handled by the PDF viewer and as such they most likely have limitations to the formatting.
#9
Languages, Translation and Localisation / Re: Transifex updates
Last post by StephanP - November 05, 2024, 08:03:11 AM
Thanks for this explanation.
I have another question about the ScribusStable branch, as I think I'm seeing inconsistencies in the Dutch translation compared to the Scribus branch.

I figure it must have been about a year ago that the ScribusStable branch was created. Was this created as a copy from the Scribus branch or was it drawn from the code base, not necessarily the same as the Scribus branch?

Further question: How can one create and maintain consistency between these two translation branches, preferrably semi-automatically?
Hint: translations in branch Scribus are not offered as suggestions in ScibusStable and vice versa.

Having put a tremendous amount of effort in the branch Scribus in the past - assuming that it would soon override the Scribus 1.4 branch - I fear that now I have to go through ScribusStable once again, checking all 7613 texts for consistency as I did in 2022-2023.
#10
Scripts and Plugins / using shapes with ScribusGener...
Last post by zeroheure - November 04, 2024, 11:50:44 PM
Hi
I wanted to use Scribus pre-defined shapes with ScribusGenerator, so I browsed the XML in the SLA file. Looks like it is not possible, the shapes are defined with coordinates and the FRTYPE number is the only way to recognize them. Am I wrong ?
Is there a way to use other shapes, like ones created with Inkscape, with ScribusGenerator ? Did someone already tried this ?
Any help welcome. Thankyou.