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#41

Beginner Talk / text not appearing in text box

Last post by inkfountain - September 09, 2024, 07:09:27 PM

I'm so frustrated. I have been working with Scribus for a few days & made a number of documents. Today I made a new template to start from, but I can't get my text to show up when I type in a text box. If I copy and paste a text box from a different document, it works. When I type in the text editor window, everything shows up. However, nothing shows up on the document itself. The settings for text are the exact same as they are on the documents where I can type in the text. I have restarted the program, closed and opened the documents, and nothing seems to work to get text to show up in a text window in a new document. What else can I do?

#42

Beginner Talk / Re: my own templates don't sho...

Last post by inkfountain - September 09, 2024, 07:06:48 PM

I did, but that did nothing.
I deleted everything in the templates folder and started over and that worked.

#43

Code / Re: Best forum

Last post by a.l.e - September 09, 2024, 12:32:04 PM

Nice to read your thoughts.

The only thing I can contribute for now: I'm not sure if it's worth to get into SVN, if you don't know it yet.

You won't interact with the Scribus' own SVN server, except for pulling updates that have been merged into the official code.
If you're proficient with Git, stick with it and focus on working on the features you need.

At the end of the day, the only way for you to propose patches will be through attachements in the bug tracker and, for that purpose, it does not matter if you got the code (and manage it) with SVN or Git.

And, currently, most people (if not everyone) proposing patches to the team is using Git: the "mixed" workflow is well  tested : - )

#44

Beginner Talk / Re: my own templates don't sho...

Last post by utnik - September 09, 2024, 08:56:11 AM

hi inkfountain

did you tell scribus where to find them? ('preferences' → 'paths' → 'document templates')

utnik

#45

Installation and Setup / Re: scribus on 4k display

Last post by BN_Dev - September 09, 2024, 04:36:54 AM

Try this:

Code Select Expand

$ QT_SCALE_FACTOR=1.5 scribus &

#46

Code / Re: Best forum

Last post by BN_Dev - September 09, 2024, 03:53:01 AM

If you can "sponsor" with developer time to develop the code this is probably the best way.

Thanks for your comments. To clarify, yes the "cost" would be for my development time to work on the features and make them available in the project. I'm an experienced Qt developer.

This forum plus the bug tracker, along with IRC for live chat, are the best methods to discuss development.

Thank you. I'll jump on IRC when starting any actual development but will put proposals for discussion in the forum first.

We'd be more than happy to review proposals and code for inclusion.
As you've identified, quite a portion of the wiki needs updating but we can provide direct responses to questions.
Note 1.6.x is our stable branch. 1.7.x is our development series where most development occurs - significant changes to the UI, table of contents and index generation are there.

Thanks for the links, we'll check them out. I have 1.7 from svn compiling and running. I used to use svn ages ago and it's come back to me surprisingly quickly! With regards to the development, I would generally hope to update any associated documentation as I go. There were a few old roadmaps I found on the Wiki and some of the ideas aren't too far off what we want to achieve. Hopefully some good proposals can cover our use case and easily fit with other use cases too for maximum value to the work.

Scribus seems like a great community to be involved in too, thanks for everyone's pointers 

#47

Beginner Talk / my own templates don't show up...

Last post by inkfountain - September 09, 2024, 03:38:26 AM

I saved a couple of documents as templates, but they do not show up on the chooser when I try to create  a new document from a template. I can find them in the folder where I stored them on my computer. How can I make them show up in the template chooser? Where am I going wrong?

#48

Code / Re: Best forum

Last post by MrB - September 08, 2024, 05:57:14 PM

My hope is if the features are possible and the patches are accepted, and the cost to sponsor the development is comparable to the cost of QXP/CS/QPP NG, then it would be a no-brainer for us to switch production to being fully open-source.  I'm encouraged one of the roadmap wiki pages has some things on similar to what we need so hopefully the discussions will be fruitful.

Hi Paul

We'd be more than happy to review proposals and code for inclusion.
As you've identified, quite a portion of the wiki needs updating but we can provide direct responses to questions.
Note 1.6.x is our stable branch. 1.7.x is our development series where most development occurs - significant changes to the UI, table of contents and index generation are there.

Scribus is used in some newspapers and magazines, with some good examples from India in particular. Some examples come up on this Facebook page at times: https://www.facebook.com/groups/scribus/

thanks
Craig

#49

Code / Re: Best forum

Last post by MrB - September 08, 2024, 05:43:31 PM

This forum plus the bug tracker, along with IRC for live chat, are the best methods to discuss development.

#50

Code / Re: Best forum

Last post by Nermander - September 08, 2024, 09:57:33 AM

If you can "sponsor" with developer time to develop the code this is probably the best way. It has been discussed many times before that the main problem with the development is time, not money. And also donating money causes issues when it comes to taxes etc.

But there are features in Scribus that were developed as Google Summer of Code projects and and think a lot of the support for complex script was developed with support from the government in a country who wanted good open source support for their language (it might have been Tamil, but I am not 100%).

So contributing with code is the best way to help.