Hello, can anyone help me? When I install Scribus 1.6.6 and type a line of text, I can't change the text color. In the F3 "Text Properties" panel, it's stuck on black, and in the F2 panel, the background color options are only black, registration, and white. Thank you very much in advance.
For some reason you have "lost" all the colors.
You can add new ones in the "Edit > Colors and fills"... or merge into there the "Scribus Basic" set of colors and get back the ones that are normally defined by default.
And if new documents also have "no colors", then you can add the colors in "Edit > Colors and fills" when no document is open.
Thank you very much for your quick response. I followed your advice, and it did indeed solve the problem with selecting background colors. However, I'm also having an issue with the font color. In the "Text Properties / Colors and Effects" pane, the pen icon is grayed out and it says "black 100%." I don't have access to the drop-down menu, which would allow me to change the settings. Thank you in advance for your help, once again :) (My desktop gets Windows 11 x64)
Out of curiosity where did you obtain this scribus install?
I installed Scribus 1.6.6 twice. I installed it once on Thursday, but because of the problem, I uninstalled it, then downloaded it again and installed it on Friday.
I downloaded the following version from SourceForge:
Released /scribus-svn/1.6.7.svn/scribus-1.6.7.svn-snapshot-20260918-x64.exe
Thank you for your advice
I downloaded the following version from SourceForge:
Released /scribus-svn/1.6.7.svn/scribus-1.6.7.svn-snapshot-20260918-x64.exe
Thank you for your advice
Have you tried 1.6.6 instead? See if you have the same issue.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus/1.6.6/scribus-1.6.6-windows-x64.exe
Many thanks for your help :)
Sadly, as I install this new release and immediately check the font color, there isn't any option. The pen is grey and locked on black.
I don't think that the issue is with the colors or the Scribus version.
Would you mind sharing a screenshot that shows the text frame and the content palette?
I hope that this is the screenshot that you need.
hi jwhyhfr
what is grayed out in your screenshot is not the text (fill) color. it is the color of the outline of your text. you can select a color here as soon as you use outlined text.
utnik
A big thank you to a.l.e, AdmFubar, and finally, to you, utnik. I should have checked the help section before asking for your help. But I first ran into a problem with the background colors (now fixed), and I didn't want to start working on my project with a potential second issue. Thank so much.