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#31
Beginner Talk / Re: Manage image - Multiple li...
Last post by Lynn - January 29, 2026, 06:10:18 PM
Would converting the image to a symbol and using instances of the symbol, rather than copies of the image, work to reduce the filesize? Using symbols links the copies to the original object so Scribus knows they're all the same.

I did a quick test where I converted a large image to a symbol and then created a bunch of instances of that symbol and the PDF exports looked to be almost the same size with the extra copies as it did with 1 instance.

When I tried the same thing with images the document size increased with each image copy.
#32
Layout Issues / Re: Preventing single word lin...
Last post by Lynn - January 29, 2026, 05:52:31 PM
Obviously too late to help on the original problem, but I found this post while working on a script to handle runts and figured I'd reply here in case google leads anyone else to this post.

Various typography advice books advise not allowing short word "stub" or "runt" endings to paragraphs. It's mentioned on the widow/orphan wikipedia page and in Bringhurst's Elements of Typographic Style: "2.4.2: Avoid leaving the stub-end of a hyphenated word, or any word shorter than four letters, as the last line of a paragraph."

I read a decent article that recommended the minimum length word be based on the indentation width used in the work, aiming for at least twice the width of the indent. That also seems a reasonable heuristic; Bringhurst favors small indents and his advice is based on that.

The easiest and most obvious way to prevent runts is to swap the space prior to the short word with a non-breaking space. I've always done that manually; sometimes pulling the runt up to the previous line will squash the text in a way that's more annoying than the runt would be. But if anyone wants to automate this, I've written a draft script that seems to do the trick:
https://github.com/notwhelmedyet/ScribusTypesetting/blob/main/ExperimentalScripts/runts.py

It won't catch sequences of very short words together, theoretically you could add a loop to check the next rightmost space. Regex would also be a more efficient alternative.
#33
Beginner Talk / Re: Manage image - Multiple li...
Last post by IanicM - January 29, 2026, 04:57:22 PM
Thanks for the quick reply.

Just so it's clear to me:  if I have one image which is 1mb and it shows up 10 times in the image manager, this would mean it would make up 10mb of the PDF file? ( compression aside. )
#34
Beginner Talk / Re: tool bar
Last post by Olga R - January 29, 2026, 04:50:20 PM
Thanks! I changed the theme in the preferences and the tool box appeared. It was a well hidden solution!
#35
Beginner Talk / Re: Manage image - Multiple li...
Last post by a.l.e - January 29, 2026, 10:37:43 AM
Yes, Scribus adds each image individually.

This seems to be necessary for the cases where the image is not included as is (filters, ...)
#36
General Discussion / Re: Scribus at full speed !
Last post by a.l.e - January 29, 2026, 10:34:42 AM
Yes, nice to see this documented in this way.

You can probably also do the same and, instead of moving around the images, just rename the folder and add add _low or _high to the one which is currently inactive (you should probably close the document before renaming the folders)
#37
General Discussion / Re: Tables
Last post by omoro - January 28, 2026, 03:05:39 PM
A very basic solution :
Make a picture of the table with screen copy
Import the picture in a frame

Nobody will see the trick when it's printed...
#38
General Discussion / Scribus at full speed !
Last post by omoro - January 28, 2026, 03:00:00 PM
Hello everybody.

I'm just sharing a trick in this post.
I'm working on an Art Book with around 200 pages and many pictures.
The pics are, of course, hi-res for correct printing.

Half way along the process, Scribus was slowing down when inserting new pictures and also on other operations. Very annoying.

I found a simple solution :
- Create a copy of all the pictures in lo-res (30% Jpeg) but same size and, very important, the exact same name.
- Move all hi-res pics actually used in another directory
- Replace the by the lo-res pic (and do not bother with the warnings)
- Continue the creation of the book at full speed
- When the book is finished, move back the hi-res in the Scribus directory
- Verify that the warnings are gone (re-import if not)
- Ready to export to PDF and print

That's it, very simple and effective.
#39
Beginner Talk / Manage image - Multiple listin...
Last post by IanicM - January 28, 2026, 02:38:09 PM
Hi all,

After exporting, I'm ending up with a very large PDF file. I've open the Manage Images and noticed I have many instances of the same image. In some cases, many instances of large PNG files.

Do each images and their copies displayed in the Manage Images count as only one image or are they all unique items and all count as individual images?

#40
Beginner Talk / Re: tool bar
Last post by Lynn - January 28, 2026, 02:30:15 AM
Oh! I just remembered seeing this post on Reddit - apparently it's possible for the icons of the toolbar to blend in with the background on Mac.

If you're having that problem, try going into Preferences > User Interface > Theme and changing the icon set.