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#1

Installation and Setup / Re: Why Can't I Print Full Siz...

Last post by utnik - Today at 04:46:19 PM

hi ehbowen

Possibly I'm confused as to how Scribus handles bleeds. Is there documentation on that?
Here's what I'm expecting when I set up a document with bleeds:

• Page Size = Final trimmed size (in this case, 5.25" x 8", or 10.5" x 8" for the full double page spread
• Bleed = Area outside the trimmed page which is to be printed with color, with the intent of trimming to give a "fully printed page" (marginless) feel. In this case, it would be .08".
• Margin = Area not to be printed, either for layout or (in this case) technical regions...my Xerox WorkCentre requires a minimum page margin of .1614" on all sides.
• Output page size = full size of the media to be printed on, in this case US Letter-sized bond paper (8.5" x 11").

Am I off with any of this?

the screenshot in post #5 shows that you generated your .pdf without the bleeds. ('pre-press' tab in the .pdf export window...)

...I couldn't find an option to format it for output as a booklet, either within Scribus or in the printer settings itself.

as i said before, i don't know okular. maybe it has no 'booklet' function.
i use 'acrobat reader' and 'foxit reader'. both of them support booklet printing. but there is a small .pdf handler called 'jpdftweak'. it looks a bit old fashioned, but it does booklet reordering and many other things. if neither your .pdf reader nor your printer driver does the trick, you might give it a try.

utnik

#2

Features / Feature Request: Font Folders

Last post by ehbowen - Today at 04:09:30 PM

One thing which I dislike about Scribus is its font management, and especially having to scroll through hundreds if not thousands of fonts and font families in order to select the handful which I want to work with in a given document.

This is apparently a long-standing request, but I'm still having to scroll through a list of every font installed on my machine, including hundreds which I never asked for, to find the one I want.

What I'd prefer is to be able to specify a "project fonts" working folder specific to that project and which could be duplicated for other, similar projects with the same subject matter or for the same organization. As an alternative, perhaps you could implement a design feature of Word, where fonts already in use within an active document appear at the top of the font requester?

Thank you.

#3

Installation and Setup / Re: Why Can't I Print Full Siz...

Last post by ehbowen - Today at 03:31:20 PM

Possibly I'm confused as to how Scribus handles bleeds. Is there documentation on that?
Here's what I'm expecting when I set up a document with bleeds:

• Page Size = Final trimmed size (in this case, 5.25" x 8", or 10.5" x 8" for the full double page spread
• Bleed = Area outside the trimmed page which is to be printed with color, with the intent of trimming to give a "fully printed page" (marginless) feel. In this case, it would be .08".
• Margin = Area not to be printed, either for layout or (in this case) technical regions...my Xerox WorkCentre requires a minimum page margin of .1614" on all sides.
• Output page size = full size of the media to be printed on, in this case US Letter-sized bond paper (8.5" x 11").

Am I off with any of this?

By The Way, I tried going back to my original facing pages/first page right (booklet format) layout. But I couldn't find an option to format it for output as a booklet, either within Scribus or in the printer settings itself. Probably I'm missing something very simple.

#4

Scripts and Plugins / Re: Image loading using script...

Last post by utnik - Today at 02:59:11 PM

can't see the attached files:

utnik

#5

Installation and Setup / Re: Why Can't I Print Full Siz...

Last post by utnik - Today at 02:55:33 PM

i don't know okular. but it looks as scribus did its job. as you stick to the (very unusual) way to have four single pages in the order 4, 1, 2, 3, okular must deal with it in another way than the normal booklet printing. (and if you're printing on 8.5"/11" paper it may be misaligned by the missing 0.5"...)

utnik

#6

Installation and Setup / Re: Why Can't I Print Full Siz...

Last post by ehbowen - Today at 02:21:46 PM

Besides printing direct, I tried printing the PDF via Okular (I'm on Linux...Ubuntu Studio 24.04LTS). And, according to the Properties data there, my page size is the desired 5.25" x 8" (see attachment).

Possibly it's a printer issue (Xerox WorkCentre 6515DN); I tried "fit" scaling, "full size" scaling, no scaling...basically, I tried every single scaling option it offered. The results were consistent, although consistently unacceptable. If it was a printer issue, though, it was resolved by transferring the data to LibreOffice Draw; I printed that file the very first time with no issues. But that's a rather kludgy workflow for the other members of the church whom I'd like to have assist me in future.

#7

Scripts and Plugins / Image loading using script not...

Last post by shab.t786 - Today at 11:08:34 AM

I am loading an image using script but the color of the image does not show properly in scribus
Below is the script.
Attached are the images of how it shows in scribus

Code Select Expand

        image = Image.open(image_path)
        width, height = image.size  # Get image dimensions
       
        # Convert pixels to Scribus points (assuming 72 DPI)
        #width_pts = 40
        #height_pts = 40
        width = 40
        height = 40
        dpi = 300
        width_pts = width * 72 / dpi
        height_pts = height * 72 / dpi
        # Set default position for image
        x_pos, y_pos = -80, 80
       
        # Create and load image into Scribus frame
        image_frame = scribus.createImage(x_pos, y_pos, width_pts, height_pts)
        scribus.loadImage(image_path, image_frame)
        scribus.setScaleImageToFrame(True, True, image_frame)


#8

Installation and Setup / Re: Why Can't I Print Full Siz...

Last post by utnik - Today at 10:40:11 AM

...By the way, if I was to go back to my original four-page layout...is there a PDF option which will print it correctly as far as page order? I couldn't find it and ended up moving the back cover to Page 1.

the usual way would be to generate a standard layout with 'facing pages' and the first page on the right side and print it as a 'booklet' (many .pdf readers allow this by default.)
the approach with two landscape pages (p4/p1 and p2/p3) works as well and is easy as long as there are just 4 portrait pages. what went wrong when you tried this? was the .pdf file already scaled to 75% and misaligned, or did this happen later, when printing?

utnik

#9

Installation and Setup / Re: Why Can't I Print Full Siz...

Last post by ehbowen - Today at 06:45:38 AM

Lot of info is missing about your document. From what i can see from the images provided, your top margin is out of whack. Cant determine why from just the images.

Would need to see the whole document to find what is wrong. Can you attach the document for us to peruse? If you can use the collect for output, and then zip the directory so we can have all the relevant  bits of the file.

Okay. I had to crunch it down quite a bit as I was using the full-resolution stock photo files I purchased, so the original file was over 54 megs...! But I replaced the images with downscaled versions and kept the same layout, and I still have the same printing problem. So I'll upload that now.

Thanks for taking a look at it. I'm wanting to move to in-house design using open source software as opposed to the expensive preprinted bulletin services. So I'd like to get Scribus working successfully.

By the way, if I was to go back to my original four-page layout...is there a PDF option which will print it correctly as far as page order? I couldn't find it and ended up moving the back cover to Page 1.

By The Way, I was experimenting with bleeds but not going full bleed with this layout. So that header image of the church was not intended to bleed...in this version. For this coming Sunday I'm going with a larger image and I'll bleed the top of it as well.

#10

Installation and Setup / Re: Why Can't I Print Full Siz...

Last post by ehbowen - Today at 06:42:49 AM

Lot of info is missing about your document. From what i can see from the images provided, your top margin is out of whack. Cant determine why from just the images.

Would need to see the whole document to find what is wrong. Can you attach the document for us to peruse? If you can use the collect for output, and then zip the directory so we can have all the relevant  bits of the file.

Okay. I had to crunch it down quite a bit as I was using the full-resolution stock photo files I purchased, so the original file was over 54 megs...! But I replaced the images with downscaled versions and kept the same layout, and I still have the same printing problem. So I'll upload that now.

Thanks for taking a look at it. I'm wanting to move to in-house design using open source software as opposed to the expensive preprinted bulletin services. So I'd like to get Scribus working successfully.

By the way, if I was to go back to my original four-page layout...is there a PDF option which will print it correctly as far as page order? I couldn't find it and ended up moving the back cover to Page 1.