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#1
Beginner Talk / Re: Any documentation availabl...
Last post by PaulL - Today at 11:12:53 PM
Thanks, will do.
#2
Beginner Talk / Printing a booklet?
Last post by PaulL - Today at 11:11:36 PM
Since Scribus is listed as the premier Linux alternative to Adobe InDesign, I made the mistake of assuming that there would be a "print booklet" feature.  Oops!

I want to print a booklet of eight half-sheet pages on both sides of two full-sized sheets of paper.
Since there doesn't appear to be any way to print two 5.5 x 8.5" pages on one 8.5 x 11" sheet (that would make things too easy! :D ), let me see if I have this right:

1. My original document is 5.5" wide and 8.5" tall.  So first, I have to create a document 11" wide x 8.5" tall, right?

2. Is there a columns feature to Scribus, or do I simply lay out guides manually and fit text boxes to them?

3. Can I drag the text frames from my 5.5 x 8.5" Scribus document into my 8.5 x 11" document?  I see there's a command to unlink them, which means I could drag them in the proper order, at least.

4. I am familiar with the process of imposing pages on signatures.  No help needed there.

And from there I assume it's just a matter of printing the pages in the correct order to form the booklet?  Or is there something I've missed?

If I had the time, I'd look at the source code and see what the chances are of adding in a booklet feature, but Easter is coming, and I have two Passion Gospels to print out, not to mention a number of service booklets. Even the ability to print two half-size pages on a full sheet of paper would be a blessing.  Oh, well.  "Cut and paste" used to be a literal term, maybe that's what I should do now.
#3
Beginner Talk / Re: Is there a way to disable ...
Last post by MrB - Today at 10:53:04 PM
Blue shading? Can you add a screenshot?
#4
Beginner Talk / Re: Any documentation availabl...
Last post by MrB - Today at 10:52:25 PM
I'm guessing you're on a linux distribution that has separated the help packages out.. perhaps due to our licence on those docs.

https://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Help:Welcome_Index has some format of it I believe. Quite out of date, as are the help docs honestly. But, the same theory applies but lots has changed.

Ask about the topic and people can answer here though.
#5
Beginner Talk / Any documentation available fo...
Last post by PaulL - Today at 10:48:35 PM
I wanted help with a particular topic, so I clicked on the Help option and received this message:

QuoteSorry, no manual is installed!
Please see:
http://docs.scribus.net for updated documentation
http://www.scribus.net for downloads

To me, this sounds as though there's a manual available for download.  Am I wrong?  I can't seem to find it, and the Scribus Wiki doesn't appear downloadable, at least, not easily.
#6
Text and Typography / Re: Typography tracking not ma...
Last post by MrB - Today at 10:06:05 PM
Go to the About Scribus Window and you should see the versions active with the build, per the below. What do the different versions say?
#7
Scripts and Plugins / Re: Adjusting Table to Frame t...
Last post by a.l.e - Today at 09:59:25 PM
I've created a table with the UI.

I've found the commands "adjust table to frame" and "adjust frame to table" but I could not see any changes and I'm still wondering what they do.

In the scripter both commands are called when creating a table but there is no way to trigger them.
This having been said, it should be pretty easy to expose them.

But what are they doing?
#8
MacOS / Re: Scribus un-useable Signal ...
Last post by a.l.e - Today at 09:48:23 PM
you will probably need to share the .sla, if you want to get any help...

if you don't want the file to be world readable, you can create a ticket on https://bugs.scribus.net and upload it in a private comment.
then it will only be accessible to the developers.

you will also have to tell us what are the exact steps to trigger the crash.
#9
Text and Typography / Re: Typography tracking not ma...
Last post by a.l.e - Today at 09:46:09 PM
it's probably due to a difference in the version of the library in charge of placing the glyphs.

if i recall correctly, it's about harfbuzz.


if it's the case, it's a know issue and there is no solution yet, except trying to get the same version of harbuzz on windows (you don't have a choice there: it's in the scribus installer you downloaded) and on linux (finding a distribution / version with the same version of harbuzz as in windows; or compiling the same version and compiling scribus with that)
#10
Text and Typography / Re: Typography tracking not ma...
Last post by MrB - Today at 09:43:40 PM
It's most likely due to library dependency differences, harfbuzz, icu, etc. The Windows/Mac versions are released with what is available at the time of release. The Linux ones will use whatever the distribution has when the application runs.