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#91
Beginner Talk / Re: Beginner consider giving u...
Last post by a.l.e - May 05, 2025, 08:32:40 PM
Let make one thing clear:

If you are going to create a longer document and really want the images to follow the text ("inline" or at the top / bottom of the page), then Scribus is currently NOT part of the solution.

You might be able to do it with LibreOffice, but it probably requires lot of discipline to get it to work right.
An alternative would be some sort of Latex (Context?) or even Typst (but it does not seem to have a mature HTML output for Epub).
But I'm not sure you will be comfortable with them.

And, then, there are lot of proprietary tools you can use...
But that's not among the topics of this forum.
#92
Beginner Talk / Re: Unlinking text frames
Last post by a.l.e - May 05, 2025, 07:25:47 PM
does not happen here...

which version are you using?

can you enable "View > Text Frames > Show Text Chain" to make visually more clear that the frame is indeed unlinked (and that there are not other linked frames involved)
#93
Raster and Vector Graphics / Re: fuzzy images - why is this...
Last post by a.l.e - May 05, 2025, 07:14:58 PM
If you right click (well, trigger the context menu...) on the image, and go into the "Preview Settings", what is the currently selected value?

If it's "Low Resolution", you now know what is happening...
#94
General Discussion / Re: Story Editor - Font Menu
Last post by srikrishnan - May 05, 2025, 05:34:03 PM
Hi,

Thanks for your responses.

now i have uninstalled 1.7.0 SVN and installed 1.6.4. it works well. there is no glitches in that on my same laptop with Windows 11 Home Edition.

regards,
Srikrishnan
#95
Beginner Talk / Multi-footnotes
Last post by itshakgm - May 05, 2025, 02:31:57 PM
Hi,

I need to write some book and a friend recommended me to use Scribus.
I start to try but I don't success to solve my issue:
Every page contain 2 or 3 text frames:
a) The main content
b) Footnotes about the Main content. (These footnotes are short notes)
c) Footnotes about the Main content or the previous footnotes. (These footnotes are long notes).

a) and b) will be every time but c) is depending.

I see that I can define more of one type of footnote style but I can't add footnote to footnote.
Also I don't success to separate the two footnote frames but maybe it is because my poor knowledge of Scribus.

Thanks you very much for help

#96
Raster and Vector Graphics / Re: fuzzy images - why is this...
Last post by rocking - May 05, 2025, 01:51:47 PM
I should also note that I tried removing the exif data, in case that was messing things up, but it made no difference.  The exif data is shown below.

Quote$ exiv2 -PE Bathurst\ Power\ and\ Paper\ S-3\ 1961.JPG
Exif.Image.XResolution                      Rational    1  250
Exif.Image.YResolution                      Rational    1  250
Exif.Image.ResolutionUnit                    Short      1  cm
Exif.Image.Software                          Ascii      49  Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 10.1 (Windows)
Exif.Image.DateTime                          Ascii      20  2021:01:10 17:26:29
Exif.Image.ExifTag                          Long        1  172
Exif.Photo.ExifVersion                      Undefined  4  2.31
Exif.Photo.OffsetTime                        Ascii      7  -05:00
Exif.Photo.ColorSpace                        Short      1  sRGB
#97
Beginner Talk / Unlinking text frames
Last post by occamsrazor - May 05, 2025, 08:25:23 AM
My first ever post, so first: Thank you, you lovely people for producing this software and giving it to humanity for free! :-*  I love you! And thank you community for being here to help newbies like me!

I have been trying to unlink text frames and been unsuccessful.

I clicked the upstream frame to be unlinked, then selected "unlink" (arrows appear between frames) and clicked the frame downstream. The downstream text disappears and becomes overflof in the upstream frame. When i let the text paste into the downstream frames, the link is re-established.

What am I doing wrong?
#98
Raster and Vector Graphics / fuzzy images - why is this hap...
Last post by rocking - May 05, 2025, 05:02:27 AM
I have been using Scribus to produce a club newsletter (10 issues per year) since June 2021 which means I am working on my 40th issue.  I generate a 300 dpi pdf for printing and also generate a 100dpi pdf for online viewing.

I am on Linux (Ubuntu).  I use images (mostly jpg) as they are sent to me as most do not need editing. If one does, for something like removing keystoning, then I will use gimp.

There is a weird thing that sometimes happens with images and I cannot explain it, and it is happening again with a couple of images in the next issue and I am tearing my hair out over it (please help me not go bald!)

I have an image that gwenview reports is 1920x120, 2.3 MP and X and Y resolution is 250.  However, in an image frame that is 263.5 pt width, the image is blocky and blurry. The image actually looks better in the generated pdf, even the 100 dpi, but it is still pixelated compared to the image when viewed in gwenview.

Images attached show the signature (at bottom left of image):
-- on screen view, at 200%.
screen-view-at-200-pct.png
-- pdf generated at 100 dpi, at 100%
pdf-100dpi-at-100-pct.png
-- image, from gwenview, at 100%.
gwenview-at-100-pct.png

I hope this is understandable.
#99
Beginner Talk / Re: Beginner consider giving u...
Last post by Jensus - May 04, 2025, 11:28:24 PM
I will try to explain "where they should be" regarding images.
I am writing a technical book. This is a section from it:
Spectrally measured signal to noise ratio versus power supply induced noise
-image of oscilloscope screen-
Visible peaks at 50Hz, 100Hz, 150Hz, 200Hz and 300Hz.


In the text above the image must be locked there inbetween those lines, not locked in position on the page, no matter if I rewrite something above it and the text section moves to the next page, the image must move with it.

I will use the software not only to format but do some writing. For example I may want to add some text above. The image must move with it. I have not managed to get this to work in Scribus, the image is locked on a position on the page, not locked in relationship to the text. In Word you anchor an image to text, and it moves if you write, add, delete e t c. But not in Scribus, from what I have found. Not if you use an image frame in any case.

(Or maybe I have misunderstood this image positioning thing and overlooked some basic trick..)

You're right, I am not sure why Scribus is unsuitable for a longer technical book with many images. Trying to find out. My book is massively image oriented, I'd say it is 40% images.
I did try to create some documents. Did not manage to make it work very well. I understand this is a new craft, and it will take time to learn. I am not a complete beginner though, I wrote my graduation thesis in university in Word, but that was 20 years ago. It was both text and images.

AdmFubar, thanks for the advice, yes I have heard about LaTex, is that what you are referring to? I haven't checked that one out yet.
#100
Beginner Talk / Re: Beginner consider giving u...
Last post by AdmFubar - May 04, 2025, 11:24:57 PM
What you prolly need to use is TeX. It is designed with technical documents in mind.