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#1
General Discussion / Re: TOC functionality in 1.7.x
Last post by theodorene37 - Today at 04:39:58 AM
Separate character styles for TOC text and page numbers would make a lot of sense and avoid visual imbalance. Checking or opening a ticket sounds like the right next step if this isn't tracked yet.
#2
General Discussion / Re: Cannot change font in styl...
Last post by spendkedge - Today at 02:41:36 AM
Quote from: sersha on December 22, 2025, 01:27:12 PMI double-checked the original .odt file, then made a new one, where I created new styles for Emph, EmphStrong, Strong for Italics, Bold Italics and Bold respectively.
Then I typed 4 lines in default font, gave each of them appropriate styling. For safety's sake, I also cleared a direct formatting by Ctrl-M. Saved.
Importing in Scribus, and out of nowhere it appears a direct formatting again, which can be removed by the abovementioned technique indeed.
The question is - where is it coming from? And, what to do to prevent this direct formatting from appearing?
fnf
Also, when attempting to change styles, which should follow the Default Character Style, they do not really follow it. It is as if on the occasion formatting taken from the respective character style (say, Emph) is converted into a direct formatting, which requires manual clearing to enable changes.
LibreOffice version is 24.2.7.2.

Thank u!! :o
#3
General Discussion / Site without a donation button
Last post by T.Roberto - January 25, 2026, 12:14:33 PM
Hi, I'm T.Roberto, a new member of the forum. I use Fedora, so I have all the open source apps. Every now and then I donate a little (a little, but a little goes a long way). I can't easily find how to donate on the Scribus.net site. I can't find any links or buttons. I'd like to suggest adding a dedicated section or button, like GIMP, Krita, etc. do. Thanks.
#4
Text and Typography / Re: Is it possible to remove c...
Last post by Nermander - January 25, 2026, 10:40:26 AM
I can't find a way to "reset" only one setting to the inherited one, but re-selecting what style it inherits from seems to reset everything to the inherited values.

I tried for example clearing out the field, but it went back to the previously manually set value.
#5
Text and Typography / Is it possible to remove child...
Last post by Lynn - January 24, 2026, 03:10:31 PM
I have some base "template" files I've made for book typesetting and I realized that at some point I went and manually set the font size for the "scene start" and "chapter start" styles, which really ought to be inheriting everything from the normal paragraph except it's indentation. I looked around and couldn't find anyway to un-customize them within the program.

Obviously I could re-associate them with the parent style (which would reset all the settings) and then set up the style again, but is there some other way within the program to tell Scribus "whoops, refer back to the parent style for this setting, ignore what I typed here?"

(What I'm actually doing to fix it is open the .sla files in notepad and remove the FONTSIZE="10.5" lines within the style description, but that's obviously a bit hacky)

(I use Scribus 1.5.8 usually, but I do have an appimage of 1.6.1 I use on occasion, if that makes a difference. I need to update Linux Mint so I can get a more recent scribus directly from the repo, been busy with other stuff)
#6
PDF Generation / Re: (En/Fr) Radio button: impo...
Last post by nenex-ordi-libre - January 19, 2026, 06:17:14 PM
Hi,

I just realized I didn't reply! I'm so sorry :-[ . I haven't worked on that file again, and it's no longer relevant. But now I'm making another one where I need radio buttons.

That was it! Thanks for your help, it's perfect.

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Salut

Je viens de voir que j'ai pas répondu  :-[  ! trop désolé. Je n'ai pas retravaillé sur le fichier concerné, qui en plus n'est plus d'actualité. Mais là j'en refais un autre ou j'ai justement besoin de boutons radio.

C'était juste ça ! Merci pour ton aide, c'est parfait.
#7
Features / Re: running headers with chapt...
Last post by Lynn - January 16, 2026, 01:28:32 AM
It's been a hot minute since you posted this, but I wanted to commit a bit of thread necromancy to say THANK YOU for this script.

I'm the local Scribus "expert" in my hand bookbinding club and for years I'd been telling people that making per-chapter headers (or per-work headers listing authors for anthologies) wasn't worth the effort in Scribus. This script makes that no longer true!

I enjoy building little run-time dialogue menus to set the variables for scripts like this, since usually the people I'm helping aren't comfortable opening python scripts and changing variables by hand. I built off the bones of this to make a (admittedly clunkier) variant that does everything I could think of for book headers:
  • Selecting a style of text within the document to copy into the headers, so you can pick if you want to move chapter titles, chapter number, work title, author name etc.
  • An option to delete previously created headers, which I used a great deal during debugging
  • Applying headers to either left or right pages, so you could put author names on the left and work titles on the right, etc.
  • Applying a style chosen at runtime to the headers, so you could use different styles for left and right headers.
  • Appending the new header text to text coming from the master page. I thought this was most plausible if someone wanted to include an ornament or page number nestled against the header contents. I've definitely seen book headers with the format "# | Chapter Title" before.
(In case you're curious, the script I edited is available here. https://github.com/notwhelmedyet/ScribusTypesetting/blob/main/runningHeadersScribus.py)

But yes, thank you! Your scripts have made the process of Scribus typesetting books much less tedious. :)
#8
PDF Generation / Re: Embed / Subset problem.
Last post by Riquez - January 14, 2026, 01:56:01 PM
OK. Thanks for that info. Its useful to know.

That makes sense for Calistoga & Dejavu because they are locked as subset & cannot be moved.

The problem font (spectral regular) is not in the subset list & can be freely moved to either column.

Ultimately it doesn't really matter because moving it to subset fixes the issue, I'm only really asking to understand the issue.
Perhaps its an odd glitch with just "spectral regular" - to be honest I havent noticed this issue ever before.

#9
Installation and Setup / Re: Corrupted Copy
Last post by utnik - January 13, 2026, 03:33:34 PM
hi sheba

ok. – i forgot that apple hides this 'library' by default.
here you'll find different ways to access it.

utnik
#10
Features / Re: Some interesting features ...
Last post by joseb - January 13, 2026, 02:24:22 PM
Quote from: a.l.e on November 06, 2025, 09:45:46 AMApplying multiple (background) master pages to the same page (layered on top of each other)

I think the function of applying several master pages to the same normal page can be very useful.

In other software, I think you can create a new master page and use the "Based on Master" function to link two master pages (or have one master nested within another master).

Options:

- Be able to apply two master pages (A and B) to the same page. This way, that "normal" page will have the background of A+B. If I change something in master page A, it will be reflected in the normal pages that only have master page A applied and in the normal pages that have master pages A+B applied (the change will not be reflected in pages that only have B applied).

- Apply master page A over master page B. Then apply master page B over a "normal" page. The preview will show that master page B is applied, but you will also be able to see the background of master page A. If I change something on master page A, it will be reflected on the normal pages that have only master page A applied and on the normal pages that have master page B applied.