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Title: Template not showing up
Post by: distronix on December 04, 2025, 01:53:19 AM
Ok, I have a lot to learn. Scribus seems to be very feature-packed, but it looks to be ideal for my purposes, once I get used to it. I used Aldus Pagemaker and before that Xerox Venture DTP, so I go way back in time. First I installed the native Debian version 1.6.3, and could not get the templates to appear. Then I thought it may be a quirk with Debian, so I am now running the Flathub 1.6.4, but the template still does not show. Here is the template.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Template>
    <Name>TechGuide_6x9</Name>
    <Author>Your Name</Author>
    <Description>6×9 Technical Guide Template with margins, grid, and master pages.</Description>
    <Category>User</Category>
    <UseOrientation>true</UseOrientation>
    <File>TechGuide_6x9.sla</File>
    <Preview>preview.png</Preview>
</Template>

and the path ~/.var/app/net.scribus.Scribus/data/scribus/templates
.
└── TechGuide_6x9
    ├── preview.png
    ├── TechGuide_6x9.sla
    └── template.xml

What am I doing wrong?