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#1
Beginner Talk / Re: Import from InDesign?
Last post by mnawij - Today at 04:07:09 AM
Not sure if this will help:

https://opensource.com/article/18/7/adobe-indesign-open-source-tools

mnawij

I know there is a pages to upload the IDML file with a pdf of the same for the developers to look at current problems...if someone could help me point to the upload page that would be great.
#2
Beginner Talk / Re: ICC Profiles on Scribus : ...
Last post by jghali - February 14, 2025, 11:36:30 PM
Hi,

Could you upload some of these ICC profiles somewhere and paste the link here ? Due to the specific printing process, I suspect these profiles are N-Channel profiles which are not supported by Scribus.

Jean
#3
Beginner Talk / Re: ICC Profiles on Scribus : ...
Last post by omblik - February 14, 2025, 10:19:18 PM
Hello,

Thank you for your answer !

As I have said in my first post, I've already set  C:\WINDOWS\System32\spool\drivers\color as a path for the Colour Profiles. I have restarted Scribus after this and I haven't found the ICCs of this path in the menu of "Colour Profile" after this. Maybe there is something really obvious that I don't understand ?

In what menu can I find those profiles after having set the path ?

For example in Photoshop you cannot find them in the section "Colors" but you have to select "Convert to  profile" in the Edit section. Maybe there is something analog in Scribus that I haven't found ?
#4
PDF Generation / Re: Ridiculously large size of...
Last post by riczan - February 14, 2025, 09:41:25 PM
Final and conclusive update!
I have been running some tests, and they all lead to the same conclusion. Bear with me, I will give one example.
I took a 12MB JPG file spread over 2 pages and printed to PDF 1.4 with lossless compression and 300 dpi maximum resolution: the output file was 35MB.
I exported that 12MB JPG to TIF (29MB with LZW compression) and PNG (24MB); I then repeated the process and printed each one individually: to my surprise the resulting output file was 15MB for both.
I think we can conclude that Scribus handles lossy and lossless images in different ways, I have no idea how or why, but I am now converting all my JPGs to PNGs.

P.S. Just one note before I close: when adding images to a Scribus document make sure you set the PDF Compression in the Image Properties dialogue box to 'Global' for both Method and Quality (unless you want to enforce the settings from the Scaling section above).
#5
Beginner Talk / Re: Text editing
Last post by utnik - February 14, 2025, 09:18:43 PM
hi pierruel

ok. it's the 'story editor'.
my guess is, that the editor opens somewhere outside of your screen. did you ever work with two screens? then it might be on the missing screen...
the position is stored in a preference file. either in 'prefs150.xml' or in 'scribus150.rc'. if you delete (or rename) those files or the folder 'scribus', where they are stored, scribus will rebuild the preferences – and with a bit of luck your story editor will be there again.
but as i already wrote, i would recommend to use the 'text properties' (in french 'propriétés du texte') to apply your styles. the 'story editor' ('éditeur de texte') is a dinosaur from ancient scribus times...

utnik
#6
Beginner Talk / Re: ICC Profiles on Scribus : ...
Last post by a.l.e - February 14, 2025, 09:11:49 PM
in the preferences, you have a section called paths...

something is waiting for you there : - )

(you will probably need to restart scribus after having changed the values in there...)
#7
Beginner Talk / ICC Profiles on Scribus : how ...
Last post by omblik - February 14, 2025, 06:58:40 PM
Looking at the Scribus's archives, my question is an old song for this forum... However I haven't found the solution in spite of my numerous researches on the big Internet.

I use Scribus for the first time. I do the imposition for a fanzine I want to print in risography. For this I have to use special ICC profiles and it would be super convenient if Scribus could get to them.

I have a Windows 10 computer and the latest Scribus version (as I am a newcomer to this software). I have already installed the ICC profiles on C:\WINDOWS\System32\spool\drivers\color for the first part of my job and softwares as Krita or Photoshop can read them and access to them.

However, I can't find a way to access to them on Scribus. I've already tried :
- no document opened :
Settings -> Colour Management -> Activate Colour Management -> looking for my profiles in all menu list... won't find them
Settings -> Paths -> Colour Profiles -> set C:\WINDOWS\System32\spool\drivers\color as a colour profile path, then returning to Colour Mangement -> won't find my profile in the menu list...
- same with an opened document.

Can someone help me ?
#8
Beginner Talk / Re: Text editing
Last post by pierruel - February 14, 2025, 05:46:56 PM
Hi Utnik and AdmFuBar and many thanks,
This issue will be complicated because your copy of Scribus is an English one and mine is French, and in addition my English is far from good, and we can't simply translate the name of Scribus' features from one language into he other. First of all I would like to make clear what I mean with "text editing window". When I'm able to have it open, it take the whole screen, with a upper part with menus, commands, description of the typo characteristics, and below this part, the main part of the screen (I mean about 85 % in high) is divided into two windows, a larger one on the right, about 2/3 of the screen, where the text of the text frame is dispayed and the other on the left, where you can choose the style of each paragraph. To get to that "text editing window" you have to left click on the concerned text frame just to select it, right click to have a popup menu opened and then the item in French says "Editer le texte dans l'éditeur..." what I translated as a "Text Editing Window". The problem is that when I select a text frame and right click on the menu item "Editer le texte dans l'éditeur" nothing happens. The same happens with Ctrl/T. Hope my question is more clear. Thank you for your ideas. Regards
pierruel
#9
Beginner Talk / Re: Text editing
Last post by utnik - February 14, 2025, 03:55:05 PM
hi pierruel

what is a 'text editing window'?
there is the old 'story editor' (which i never use and don't recommend...) it opens with 'ctrl'+'t', and there is the 'text properties'-palette. this palette was part of the 'properties' in earlier versions. (maybe up to 1.4.x...) it opens with 'f3' (and is usually the way to go...)
but if you can't edit the text at all, the problem sits somewhere else, as you can always edit the text direct in the frame. (the text frame could be locked or it is not on the active layer...)

utnik

edit: admfubar was faster...
#10
Beginner Talk / Re: Text editing
Last post by AdmFubar - February 14, 2025, 03:44:32 PM
I think you are talking about opening the story editor window. I never opened by simply selecting the text frame.  You have select the text frame(Left Click), them right click and in the popup menu choose "Content/Edit Text in Story Editor". Alternatively, you select the text frame and press CTRL-T.