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#1
Beginner Talk / Import from InDesign?
Last post by Beosar - February 13, 2025, 08:09:35 PM
I tried importing an IDML file from InDesign but everything is different. Text doesn't fit on the page anymore, spacing between letters is wrong, even solid colors are slightly different.

It doesn't even show the EPS images, not sure what's up with that.

Is that normal or am I doing something wrong?

PS: I am a human, I've tried to verify that 3 times already...
#2
General Discussion / Re: Character or paragraph sty...
Last post by Ez3 - February 13, 2025, 01:46:23 PM
I agree. There are more important and urgent things.

I'll start tinkering with scripts.
#3
General Discussion / Re: Character or paragraph sty...
Last post by a.l.e - February 13, 2025, 08:57:34 AM
without having had a look at the code, i would say that all small caps should be easy to implement, since we already have all caps in the code, it's probably just the inverted transformation.
it's just as likely that it's of little interest in the real world: even our all small caps support team will probably not use it much in scribus...
(all caps is ugly, but very common in some languages: that's why it's already in!)

sentence case (or whatever is called the first letter in the sentence in caps) should also be rather easy to add (once it's clear in which language which letter starts a sentence).
if you only want to control the first letter of the sentence.
probably, also of limited interest in the real world.
the inverted case (unsentence case... with the first letter in the sentence lowercase) is probably just as useful, but harder to implement (due those stupid words that need to be written with one or more uppercase... there are also a few words that require lowercase (mm, some people's name, ...) but those are unlikely to be at the start of a sentence)

title case would be very useful (headings at levels lower than 2 should be in title case in the body of the text, but in sentence case in the table of contents).
sadly, the rules for deciding which words should start in upper case are not trivial and depend on the language.
english is the language that most would need it, but also has non trivial rules for deciding which word will be left in lowercase (and, or, the, ...).

all this having been said:

this is a case where the community can contribute the biggest part of the feature and help the developers implement the feature by collecting for each transformation (and for multiple languages):

  • the rules,
  • exhaustive examples, and
  • links to style guides.

the specification and implementation of the css property text-transform can be of much help in defining the rules for scribus (and is freely available).

my conclusion:

  • adding only one of the transformations is probably of little interest (except for title caps, the most complex of them).
  • people with typography skills (but no programming skills) can help substantially for this feature (without even needing much coordination)
  • in the meantime the rules specified in here can easily be implemented in a set of scripts
#4
General Discussion / Re: Character or paragraph sty...
Last post by utnik - February 12, 2025, 11:44:14 PM
hi ez3

i think this is a job for a script.
you can always file a feature request, but this one won't have many use cases – not sure if the devs will spend a lot of work for it...

utnik
#5
General Discussion / Character or paragraph style t...
Last post by Ez3 - February 12, 2025, 09:40:41 PM
Hello. I'm not a new user but I also haven't yet used Scribus "in anger".

I'd like to have the freedom to easily switch between:
  • ALL CAPS (already there)
  • Capitalize The First Letter Of Each Word
  • Only the first letter of the first word is capitalized
  • all words in minuscules. ever

As a matter of fact, I only need the last style with all words in minuscule to style some marginal titles, independently of how the text is stored. E.g. I'd like to be able to write:
"Work Experience" as in a heading, and then be able to switch between those styles, in a similar fashion to what the CSS text-transform property achieves.

Should I request the feature? Could it be done with a script in the meantime?

Thanks
#6
Beginner Talk / Re: Is it possible to print as...
Last post by Nermander - February 12, 2025, 05:07:25 PM
In the PDF generated by Scribus, the page is defined by the trimbox (which of course aligns with the crop marks).

https://www.prepressure.com/pdf/basics/page-boxes

At least in Acrobat, you can choose if it should crop the view to the trimbox or show the full media.

If you want to imposition into a booklet and then add crop marks I think you need to do this with the software you are using to imposition. The simple booklet printing of Acrobat cannot handle this.

Note that for this to work, you will need to impose the pages onto an oversized page.

Edit: Changed cropbox to trimbox, I confused them.
#7
Code / Re: PythonAPI and groups
Last post by tropion - February 12, 2025, 04:23:37 PM
getGroupItems() gives me the names of the objects in the group (if it is a top level group), but I can not select or move or manipulate these objects in any way. Objects that are in a group in a group are entirely inaccessible.

I submitted a patch to fix this, but I am not sure if it was intended behaviour

The captcha is broken.
#8
Beginner Talk / Is it possible to print as a b...
Last post by OnscreenLearning7 - February 12, 2025, 06:13:27 AM
It is inconvenient that Scribus doesn't have a way to format a pdf as a booklet similar to how Adobe does it. For the most part I can get around this however I am stumped as to how I can do this with bleeds and crop marks. To my knowledge, Scribus adds bleeds and crop marks to every page, which becomes a problem when transferring it to say, Adobe Acrobat, where they include the bleed and crop area into the booklet format. This leaves white space between pages which can make things feel disjointed, especially when I have elements crossing over between pages. Does anyone know if it is possible to get your work on Scribus onto a booklet formatted pdf with bleeds and crop marks?
#9
Linux / Re: Scribus 1.7.0 Flatpak
Last post by AdmFubar - February 12, 2025, 05:28:57 AM
It has an issue that seems like a garbage collection is happening. It hangs periodically for a bit, then continues. a few other oddities as well i need to sit down and use it and get back to you about it. Is there a list of new features for 1.7 somewhere that i can reference?
#10
Text and Typography / Text Frames
Last post by itsnota2ma - February 11, 2025, 05:45:42 PM
I am creating a fill form. Is there a way to automatically remove the frame text in a field when a user starts typing in it, or at least highlight the text so it can be automatically overwritten?