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#41
Text and Typography / Re: Ease of typographic mods
Last post by AdmFubar - March 06, 2025, 10:55:39 PM
I wonder if you could implement a kind of "scrapbook" of styles that could be applied/collected via an eyedropper tool? just a rambling thought.
#42
Text and Typography / Re: Ease of typographic mods
Last post by bryandavis - March 06, 2025, 10:55:24 PM
Thank you very much for your insight and response. I will consider how to best share any opinions on what would help me (and perhaps others) produce needed results from Scribus. For my personal page layout software, for now, in order to meet my needs as a typesetter, I will have to stay with QX. I think Scribus software is a great solution for DTP and fills a void in the need to move toward opensource solutions. Thanks again. -B
#43
Text and Typography / Re: Ease of typographic mods
Last post by a.l.e - March 06, 2025, 09:29:15 AM
you're observation is right:

scribus has not been created with "for fast work in a typesetting realm" in mind.

(it was more: "make a rock solid thing that produces PDFs that can be professionally printed at random print shops")

but we are working on it!

  • i started working on adding shortcuts for bold and italics (but i have no planned delivery date yet; and i'm not sure either that i will succeed)
  • there are ideas on how provide fast access to setting the glyphs spacing and width (but it probably won't be the complex keyboard shortcuts you know in quark express)
  • in the development version you can create styles from the content palette
  • there is a patch for applying styles with the keyboard (the only missing detail is: the keyboard shortcut to be used; the same approach (or even the same tool) might be used for kerning and spacing)

so, i think that we are not there yet, but there is hope...

finally, if you have specific ideas for things that you think would be "easy" to change or that are a deal breaker, you're welcome to share how you would want them to be implemented!
no promise that it will be done (in the way you are proposing), but you will be read : - )
#44
Text and Typography / Ease of typographic mods
Last post by bryandavis - March 05, 2025, 11:36:10 PM
Hello all. I am trying to switch from Quark to Scribus but am at a hurdle. It seems that things I do to correct text in my layouts are extremely labor intensive to do in Scribus. I mean things like changing a single word to bold, kerning a couple letters in a headline, cheating on leading by 2/10ths of a point to get a page to fit, tracking a line to fix the rag. All of these are single key command and very fast to accomplish in Quark. They appear to require multiple mouse clicks and moves, new paragraph styles and all A LOT of effort to accomplish in Scribus. Am I missing something, or, is Scribus just not up to my demands for fast work in a typesetting realm?
Thanks in advance for your input.
#45
Scripts and Plugins / Re: end of MS PUBLISHER and di...
Last post by a.l.e - March 05, 2025, 08:39:06 PM
welcome to scribus.

a toolbar a bit similar to the one you know from microsoft is planned for the near future.

just for your information: scribus is a bit different than publisher...

many people do not have any toolbar at the top.

one at the left.

and properties panels + tools docked on the left and right side.

a bit like this:

scribus-ui.png

p.s.: the screenshot is for the development version of scribus. you should probably start with the stable one.
#46
Scripts and Plugins / end of MS PUBLISHER and discov...
Last post by trevor - March 05, 2025, 05:54:21 AM
hello,
following the update of my version of office (version 24),
i discovered that microsoft publisher was no longer maintained

in the obligation to find a replacement, I discover SCRIBUS

confusing by its appearance,
can we change the icons of the menu?
can we have them grouped by category like at MS?

thanks in advance
#47
Free discussion / Re: Heads up: free-software gr...
Last post by mnawij - March 05, 2025, 02:37:30 AM
What time and where on Saturday, I will be at SCALE then.

Cheers!

mnawij
#48
Free discussion / Re: Heads up: free-software gr...
Last post by n8willis - March 04, 2025, 03:49:18 PM
Hi Ale; good to hear from you! And very cool to hear about the Rennes-area event, too.

I certainly don't "mind" the mentions as far as that is concerned. But if they only exist in reply comments, I think there is a chance that some percentage of forum readers won't see them. I hope you'll also start topics for each one as it is getting closer to the respective dates. Maybe the dates or places would catch somebody by the eye as they are scrolling through the pages.

There probably are not enough events per year to justify having a distinct category for them, but what would the mods think about pinning an "upcoming event" thread or two, within the Community board section, for things that are on the horizon?
#49
PDF Generation / Re: Font issues with Blurb and...
Last post by a.l.e - March 03, 2025, 09:50:20 PM
Jean just committed a patch that might solve your issue:

0017436: Avoid custom font encodings when embedding TTF fonts in PDF
https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=17436

Sadly, it won't be easy to find out if this change will improve things with Blurb, since they are sending the jobs to "random" print shops and the one getting your next job might be one that would have been safe anyway...
#50
Free discussion / Re: Heads up: free-software gr...
Last post by a.l.e - March 03, 2025, 09:44:02 PM
And since you all have now opened your agendas, for those who are closer to Rennes (France), on Avril the 5th there is the

grapfiklabor.png

GrafikLabor 2025
https://grafiklabor.cc/

As far as I know they are still looking for contributions!

lgm.png

Finally, a bit more in the center of Europe, at the end of May the Libre Graphics Meeting will take place in Nuremberg:

https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2025/

Every user is welcome to join!

(Sorry Nate for having interrupted your thread : - )