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#11
Layout Issues / Re: Opening on 2nd PC failed
Last post by utnik - November 07, 2025, 06:14:23 PM
Quote from: Nermander on November 07, 2025, 04:29:43 PM...Scribus unfortunately uses absolute paths...
this is not my experience. (...and i just checked it with scribus 1.6.4 on mac os 26.0.1.) as long as the images are on the same volume as the .sla file i see relative paths.
under 'extras' → 'manage images' scribus shows the absolute path. but that's not what is stored in the file. take a look at the code an you will find a relative path.
if the folder '/fotos' is managed by the operating system, it might have another name or another path 'under the hood' than the one the user sees.
(on my computer there is a standard folder called 'bilder'. but in the console its path says '/users/my username/pictures'...)

but as long as the relative path is the same, scribus should find the images.

utnik
#12
Layout Issues / Re: Opening on 2nd PC failed
Last post by Nermander - November 07, 2025, 04:29:43 PM
For the text, it looks as if all text frames are overflowing. Do the two PCs have the same fonts?

You can easily check this by opening the text frames in the story editor and see if the text is there.

For the images, Scribus unfortunately uses absolute paths, so if you for example have different user names on the two PCs it may fail to locate the images (there is a picture manager to help with that situation though).
#13
Layout Issues / Opening on 2nd PC failed
Last post by juergo - November 07, 2025, 03:23:02 PM
hi,

i have on both pcs windows11 scribus 1.7.1 svn installed

when i open my sla file on 2nd pc i get no pictures and no text.

all pictures are in same folder /fotos where sla file is suited.

thank you for help!


#14
Beginner Talk / Re: Automatic Contour wrap
Last post by a.l.e - November 06, 2025, 06:11:02 PM
Voilà, after having struggled a bit to get a few "strange" things to work, now I have:

  • A new Scripter command setObjectContour()
  • A script that uses it to apply a contour line that it has detected with OpenCV!

contour-line-in-scribus.gif

During the weekend, I will need to do some cleanup, publish the patch for Scribus and publish the script!
#15
General Discussion / Re: (Auto) Font-Size to match ...
Last post by AdmFubar - November 06, 2025, 05:07:56 PM
Pagestream has a feature that is close to this. You could select the text tool and click on the page and start typing, the text box would appear with the text box sized to the font. I may have to try the demo and see how it works exactly as it has been about 30 years since i've used it.
#16
General Discussion / Re: Creating an open education...
Last post by Nermander - November 06, 2025, 03:49:25 PM
The scrapbook is an often overlooked feature of Scribus.
#17
Features / Some interesting features from...
Last post by a.l.e - November 06, 2025, 09:45:46 AM
A couple of weeks, a user that is also active in this forum, asked on Reddit about letting Scribus automatically detecting the contour of an image.
(Edit: Ok, I checked and they asked here too; but the discussion went a bit further on Reddit... https://forums.scribus.net/index.php/topic,6512)

Interesting challenge: I'm working on a Python script that should be able to do it!
The work is progressing slowly but nicely.

This morning, I was curious about the reference they gave for the feature: PagePlus.

It's a software that has been discontinued ten years ago and is / was Windows only (probably the main reason why it never showed up on my radar...).

I was curious to see what it looked like and during my exploration trip, I've found a few features that could be interesting for Scribus, too (and might not require huge changes to Scribus):

  • Applying multiple (background) master pages to the same page (layered on top of each other)
  • (This is not a feature but I was inspired by an ambiguous sentence in the docs) Allow the editing of master page items from the page where they are applied (some sort of master page mode, that is only active for the specific element; we would need a key modifier to select master page items and a small toolbar would be shown attached to the item to start / finish the special edit mode)
  • (Again a feature that does not exist, just inspiration) In a group, mark one item as being the editable one: double clicking the item, would start the edit mode for that item, the content palette would (also?) show the sections for that type, the context menu would (also?) show the entries for that that type...
  • Rename the Scrapbook to Assets.
  • Add "fit", "auto fit", "auto shrink" actions / options in the content panel for text frames that modifies the text size to fit the content in the frame (shrink would only resize if the size is smaller than what defined in the styles). To be used for titles and similar short content. The preflight verifier could optionally warn about automatically resized text.
  • Create a context aware "Content toolbar" with the most basic features for each item type. It can be placed as all the other toolbars or attached to one side of the current item (for text it would only have P-style and C-styles (in one drop down), Font family (but not style), Font size, Bold, Italic, Left-center-right-justified alignement, load text, and not much more)
  • Add more flow around options: horizontal block (the text will not flow on the sides of the item; the sides being defined by the guides or margins), flow on left, right or largest side (again defined by guides or margins)
  • Create a Python script creating tables based on tabbed text (or csv text...)
  • Create a Python script that generates / updates charts based on text input (table content or a non printable frame)
  • Create a Python script that generates a list of events / a calendar based on a ics file or link
  • Create a Python script that crops the images to their visible part (keeping the original link in the attributes for updates / restoring the original image for further editing; but this might also be added as a Scribus feature, with some simple options for resolving the cases where the same image is used multiple times)
  • Create a Python script for doing imposition or find / create a tool that is free, produces good PDF, is easy enough to use (for simple use cases)
  • Exporting to Epub (that's already in the pipeline...)
  • Create a nice manual that explains the basics in about 100 pages (also in the working... based on Cédric Gémy's "Intitiation à Scribus")

What do you think about it?

There are few low hanging fruits, if somebody who knows a bit of C++ wants to give it a try, just raise your hand : - )
#18
General Discussion / Re: (Auto) Font-Size to match ...
Last post by a.l.e - November 06, 2025, 07:54:17 AM
Sorry, you're in the wrong forum.

Here you will be told, that (automatically) scaling the font to fit some text is not a good idea. : - )

More seriously, Scribus (probably rightly) does not offer this option, but it would not be hard to write a Script that processes all the text frames to frames to make their text fit.

In my workflows, the preferred ways to make text fit in the available space are

  • hyphenation
  • slightly reduce the tracking (on single words?)
  • slightly tweak the extension of the glyphs
  • if the above is not enough, reduce the length of the text, reset all tracking and extension and restart from point 1.

Of course, you I do it manually, for each text frame, but it might also be possible to automate that (up to the "reduce the length of the text"... but we have AI now that can also be integrated... never mind.).
It's a bit harder to implement, it won't fix all the cases, but I can thinking of giving it a try, if anybody thinks it can be useful...
#19
General Discussion / (Auto) Font-Size to match text...
Last post by Lukibuk99 - November 06, 2025, 04:05:57 AM
Hey, guys ;D
I'm fairly new to Scribus, so please tell me when I'm in the wrong forum. :)

I want to create A6-Spellcards for my "Dungeons and Dragons"-Character by mail-merging a layout in Scribus and my CSV-File and ScribusGenerator.
After a few trials, I noticed that my cards look fairly empty and sad most of the times, because most spell descriptions are pretty short.

In case though there is a spell with a huge description, I wanted to be prepared, so that I don't have to adjust the font size all the time.


TL;DR
But now that my cards look so empty, I wanted to ask you guys, if there is a way to avoid this problem. Is there maybe even the possibilit to let your font autoscale to a certain degree to match the text frame and the space available?


Thanks for reading!


Kind regards

Lukibuk99
#20
Beginner Talk / Re: Windows Cannot Access Spec...
Last post by a.l.e - November 05, 2025, 09:31:53 PM
I think that your IT captain is not lying : - )

Basically, Windows is telling you that the path you're trying to run cannot be accessed.
Since you're not telling us what the path is and we don't see which path your using and which ones are available on your computer, it's hard to say where exactly the problem lies.

What you can try:
find out which path your trying to start, and copy paste it into the file manager to check if the folder is accessible to you...

And, otherwise, get your captain to have a look at your computer and help you start Scribus : - )