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#1
General Discussion / Scribus e QuarkXPress
Last post by Alina_P - Today at 11:06:27 AM
Utilizzo QuarkXpress da 25 anni, ma vorrei capire come funziona Scribus rispetto appunto a XPress. Fra le altre cose volevo chiedere: come si comporta Scribus con la sillabazione (è semplice ottenere il testo giustificato inserendo le lineette degli a capo dove si vuole?). Nel caso di libri c'è la possibilità di avere la funzione libro con i capitoli inseriti in una sorta appunto di raccoglitore-libro come nel caso di X-Press? C'è qualche utente di QuarkXPress che mi può dare qualche informazione?
I file di QuarkXpress non si aprono con Scribus (penso sia inevitabile)?
Grazie infinite...
#2
Scripts and Plugins / Re: Assign a formatted text to...
Last post by Tro. - Today at 08:41:20 AM
Hello everyone,

The aim of insertHtmlText is very simple and very helpful. More extensive character formatting would not be suitable for a Scribus text frame.

I suspect that insertHtmlText is faulty, incomplete or insufficiently documented. A new function would not be useful in terms of efficiency until the symptoms described for insertHtmlText have been addressed.

Therefore, I contacted a Scribus developer (from the GUI help) as follows.

I have test data (TC1008) and am happy to make it available.


,,The Scribus Wiki refers to the addresses listed in the Scribus Help for contacting the Scribus team.
I am having trouble with the scribus.insertHtmlText function.
Therefore, I am turning to you for assistance.
Can you provide me with up-to-date documentation?
Does a bug need to be reported?

Objective:
1.       Overall objective: automatic creation of Scribus typesetting files as image catalogs
2.       Use of the scribus.insertHtmlText function to import text, including bold and italic character formatting, into a text frame.
3.       The text to be imported consists mainly of one paragraph.
4.       In exceptional cases, the text to be imported consists of up to 30 paragraphs.

Initial situation:
1.       Scribus API description: https://impagina.org/scribus-scripter-api/
2.       This description only names the function. It does not describe the necessary control of styles, from HTML tags to character formatting in the Scribus document.
3.       Chat-GPT responds to the specific question about using scribus.insertHtmlText: "Unfortunately, the documentation on this is very sparse, and there is no official, documented list of which style names Scribus uses or expects internally for <b>, <u>, etc."

Symptom description:
1.       The function reads text from the HTML file into a text frame.
2.       The character formatting does not match the expected result.
Test Case 1008:
1.      additional conditions : Windows 10, Scribus Version 1.6 und Version 1.7.3
2.       Statements: TC1008.txt
3.       html-File, file name: TC1008_a.html, TC1008_b.html, TC1008_c.html
4.      Screenshot of the result , file name: TC1008_a_Result.png, TC1008_b_Result.png, TC1008_c_Result.png
5.       Screenshot of the expected result, file name: TC1008_b_Goal.png

I look forward to hearing from you."
#3
Linux / Re: Disappearing Action Search...
Last post by AdmFubar - Today at 04:50:28 AM
Sounds like your config file isnt getting updated like it should. Without scribus running, rename the the config file. Then restart scribus and let it rebuild the .rc file. Exit scribus and edit the file to update the shortcut, and save. then start scribus again and see if the shortcut is there.

Let us know if this works or not.
#4
Linux / Disappearing Action Search sho...
Last post by Lynn - Today at 02:59:42 AM
I don't know how I did this, but somehow today the action search shortcut had vanished from my earlier versions of Scribus. For reasons (need to update linux mint) I have 1.5.8 installed but also have 1.6.4 and 1.7.2 as appimages. I've been alternating between them to test the new user interface.

What is confusing is that I don't think I can have accidentally deleted the action search shortcut myself, since it's not available in the Preferences > Keyboard Shortcut window at all. I'd meant to file a bug report that you can't customize the shortcut for that command since it doesn't appear in the list.

I managed to locate the Scribus150.rc document with the user profile and sure enough there's a line that says:
 <Shortcut KeySequence="" Action="helpActionSearch"/>

Where in the Scribus170.rc it says:
 <Shortcut KeySequence="Ctrl+/" Action="helpActionSearch"/>

I'd noticed a bunch of my other keyboard shortcuts I always use had disappeared as well, but I'd assumed maybe I'd erased them myself by accident. Presumably I can edit the line in the rc file to get my action search shortcut back but I'm baffled how it disappeared in the first place.
#5
Features / Re: Styles, Master pages, Scra...
Last post by Lynn - February 12, 2026, 11:49:47 PM
When I'd first seen the question way back I looked at the API to see if I could figure a script for multiple move/resize. Finding matching objects was pretty simple, but I couldn't figure out how to move them the right distance If the first match and the source object weren't on the same page, figuring out the right relative distance was a head-scratcher.

I'd definitely be interested in seeing a script that tackles this.

There's a real use-case if you resize the margins of a document and then want to move text frames / objects to match the new margins. Picking the matches based on size/position is a lot easier to apply than hunting for name matches you'd need to have set up when you first made the document.
#6
Features / Re: Styles, Master pages, Scra...
Last post by a.l.e - February 12, 2026, 09:15:04 PM
I skimmed through joseb's script and I had an idea to improve / simplify his script (sorry, I did not read the script... only the description):

- first select the item with the new position and size
- then add to the selection all the items with the old position / size
- start the script to change all the not first items to have the same position and size as the first one

an even better solution could be:

-first select the item with the new position and size
- then add to the selection the next item with the old position / size
- all following items with matching position / size to the second item will be changed to match the first item in the selection.

If there is interest for such an approach I can create the script...
#7
Text and Typography / Re: Lorem Ipsum in Spanish
Last post by a.l.e - February 12, 2026, 08:49:21 PM
Here a link from Project Gutenberg:

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2000/2000-h/2000-h.htm

Can other Spanish speaking people confirm that they would recognize that as a "Lorem Ipsum"?

Also younger ones?
#8
Windows / Re: New install not working
Last post by a.l.e - February 12, 2026, 03:51:45 PM
Where did you get Scribus from?
Which version of Windows?
64 bit?
The installer is also for 64 bit?
#9
Windows / New install not working
Last post by PeteW1959 - February 12, 2026, 12:15:13 PM
First time attempting Scribus as a replacement for Publisher.
I've downloaded the latest stable version 1.6.5 and installed it.
When I trying running it for the first time I get an error - "C:|Program Files\Scribus 1.6.5\Qt5Widgets.dll is either not designed to run on Windows or it contains an error..... Error status 0xc0e90002"

What can I do?
#10
Scripts and Plugins / Re: [SOLVED] Excessive process...
Last post by a.l.e - February 12, 2026, 10:10:04 AM
Some time ago I've started collecting test documents for Scribus.

https://github.com/aoloe/scribus-test-documents

I also have created a test case for a huge slowness when creating a long chain of text frames:

https://github.com/aoloe/scribus-test-documents/tree/master/scripts/text-frame-chains

I would love to also add your case... so that we can have some evidence of where Scribus is too slow (and have a chance to find a fix by analyzing which task are being done too often).