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#81
Linux / Dead Keys not working on Scrib...
Last post by danilo - February 25, 2025, 03:54:22 PM
As I write in Portuguese, I need special characters such as "ç", "á", "õ" etc.
With US-international Keyboard, in e, very app and computer, I do it with the use of "dead keys" (i.e.. ```~+o = õ```), as they are setup on OS settings (English, US, intl., with dead keys).

Current Scribus version, 1.6.1, works fine on my desktop pc with the same OS, Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS. However, I cannot manage to make dead keys work on my notebook on Scribus. They work in every app, except on Scribus.

Any ideas on how to solve it?
#82
PDF Generation / Re: Font issues with Blurb and...
Last post by kenerling - February 25, 2025, 10:56:43 AM
Quote from: a.l.e on February 23, 2025, 08:27:19 PMsend me the link with a private message in this forum...

Done!

Thanks and cheers!
#83
Scripts and Plugins / Re: Attaching python debugger
Last post by a.l.e - February 24, 2025, 08:12:55 PM
I've tried to attach a debugger in the past, but I had no luck.

No idea if it's possible to do so.

I might have notes somewhere about what I've tried, but I don't think that it really would help.

When creating complex scripts, my approach is to "mock away" Scribus, with a local module that defines the same commands but does (mostly) nothing.

My mock is here: https://github.com/aoloe/scribus-script-repository/tree/master/mockAPI

With that you can do faster iteration, attach to a debugger, and so on..., by running the script outside of Scribus.
#84
Scripts and Plugins / Re: Scripter: is LayerLocked
Last post by jirib - February 24, 2025, 06:25:52 PM
mark as solved (at least solution is known) ???
#85
Scripts and Plugins / Attaching python debugger
Last post by jirib - February 24, 2025, 03:39:54 PM
Hi,

I work on some Scribus/Python automation and apart of using `print' for debugging in shell if `scribus' is run from shell directly, I can't figure out if it is possible to attach a debugger for python scripts.

I tried via `remote_pdb' but there is no source visible: does it mean Scribus pushes the actual script to python via stdin ?

Any tips and tricks?
#86
Layout Issues / Re: Footnotes: vertical alignm...
Last post by jirib - February 23, 2025, 09:35:21 PM
Quote from: a.l.e on February 23, 2025, 08:33:04 PMhave you seen "Edit > Notes styles"?

But I did not find a way to add a line separator in there...

I did but it is not really relevant to my comment here.

However, I think my first comment is solved; the solution for the latter one is unknown :/
#87
Layout Issues / Re: Footnotes: vertical alignm...
Last post by a.l.e - February 23, 2025, 08:33:04 PM
have you seen "Edit > Notes styles"?

But I did not find a way to add a line separator in there...
#88
PDF Generation / Re: Font issues with Blurb and...
Last post by a.l.e - February 23, 2025, 08:27:19 PM
QuoteConsidering that's Adobe (InDesign) creating Adobe (pdf), it does make it difficult to believe that this problem lies elsewhere than with Blurb.

It is a bit more complicated than that.

But at the end, it boils down do the fact that RIPs (the thing that converts PDFs into bitmaps that can be printed) and the printers (the thing that gets the bitmaps and put ink on paper) are really complex and fragile machines.

It's hard to know everything about them (and at least until a recent past, the people working at print shop were not really fan of knowing everything about software details: their craft is paper and ink!) and the best way to get the own jobs to go through smoothly is to get to know your printer.

But this is impossible with Blurb, since the job is sent to a random print shop and you will never know which one it was.

Quote
QuoteIf you send me the links

Where or how would I go about doing that?

Put it on a shared space you trust (Google Drive is such a element), make it accessible to who has the "secret" link, and send me the link with a private message in this forum...
#89
MacOS / Re: What release for an old Ma...
Last post by utnik - February 23, 2025, 05:48:44 PM
hi veronique

scribus1.4.8 (stable) and scribus 1.5.5 (development version) seem to be the latest versions for macos10.13.
i would recommend 1.5.5, but that's up to you...

utnik
#90
Layout Issues / Re: Footnotes: vertical alignm...
Last post by jirib - February 23, 2025, 04:46:50 PM
And... how do I create a thin line separator between the text frame and the actual text frame with the footnotes (like LibreOffices does)?