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#1
User Interface / Re: Menu icons too small — Alm...
Last post by MrB - July 30, 2026, 10:34:23 PMMaybe I'll create a snapshot dmg this weekend.
#2
Showcase / Creating a book from start to ...
Last post by goldenbrown - July 30, 2026, 09:55:51 PMHey everyone!
I'm a graphic designer and some years ago I transitioned from Indesign to Scribus (and I never regretted it). Scribus is a robust program and it's super cool to use once you get the hang of it.
After I went through my own journey of adapting and learning how to use it, I decided to put together a course that teaches how to create books from start to finish using Scribus.
The course was in the making for around a year and a half, and now it's finally live.
I'm very proud of the results! I tried to keep it comprehensive but practical at the same time, so students can learn while they create a project. You can check it out on the link:
Scribus Publishing Essentials
Thanks so much to the Scribus's developers for creating such a cool program!
I'm a graphic designer and some years ago I transitioned from Indesign to Scribus (and I never regretted it). Scribus is a robust program and it's super cool to use once you get the hang of it.
After I went through my own journey of adapting and learning how to use it, I decided to put together a course that teaches how to create books from start to finish using Scribus.
The course was in the making for around a year and a half, and now it's finally live.
I'm very proud of the results! I tried to keep it comprehensive but practical at the same time, so students can learn while they create a project. You can check it out on the link:Scribus Publishing Essentials
Thanks so much to the Scribus's developers for creating such a cool program!
#3
General Discussion / Re: May 2026 - Mid July 2026
Last post by Malsasa - July 30, 2026, 03:39:50 PMBeautiful. I want to try it out as soon as possible. Thank you all Scribus developers for your endless effort.
Sincerely yours,
Malsasa
Sincerely yours,
Malsasa
#4
User Interface / Re: Menu icons too small — Alm...
Last post by a.l.e - July 30, 2026, 11:38:46 AMHi sojulien,
Expanding on MrB's reply:
You're welcome to test a recent development version of Scribus.
It's much (much!) better than the 1.6 you're looking at!
It's a development "release", so you should carefully check that all the features you need are working as expected, but -- most of the time and especially right now -- it should be rather solid.
Sadly, you seem to be on Mac and there is no recent build for Mac.
Good snapshots for Windows (snapshots in the official Sourceforge) and Linux (Appimages in the community managed Gitlab CI) are available.
Expanding on MrB's reply:
You're welcome to test a recent development version of Scribus.
It's much (much!) better than the 1.6 you're looking at!
It's a development "release", so you should carefully check that all the features you need are working as expected, but -- most of the time and especially right now -- it should be rather solid.
Sadly, you seem to be on Mac and there is no recent build for Mac.
Good snapshots for Windows (snapshots in the official Sourceforge) and Linux (Appimages in the community managed Gitlab CI) are available.
#5
User Interface / Re: Menu icons too small — Alm...
Last post by MrB - July 29, 2026, 10:38:04 PMScribus has a new icon set based on SVGs in 1.7.x
#6
General Discussion / Re: AI generated SLA file and ...
Last post by datavectors - July 29, 2026, 09:54:08 PMI am busy at moment but I requested Co Pilot (browser) to respond thus:
CoPilot discourse: How your workflow fits the Scribus ecosystem
Your current pipeline:
Albert → capture
Sublime → forge
Zettlr → slice/tag
Reveal.js → present
Now you add:
UI‑Drone → Scribus Python API → .sla
This gives you:
sponsor‑ready slides
magazine‑ready layouts
automated first drafts
human‑refined final designs
Exactly what the forum user wanted — but with your sovereign edge‑workflow discipline.
Me: ... I am debating my approach so thinking is rather raw. But it is along the lines of using Sublime Text to edit and validate *.sla. That much is working. But admittedly thoughts are early.
PS: I have used XMLCopyEditor to validate *.sla as well. Or XML Oxygen. But Sublime Text is powerful (with XML syntax installed .. Package Exalt.. You can add a Build of *.sla held in Sublime Text and this launches Scribus. I have a custom Scribus.sublime.build file.
CoPilot discourse: How your workflow fits the Scribus ecosystem
Your current pipeline:
Albert → capture
Sublime → forge
Zettlr → slice/tag
Reveal.js → present
Now you add:
UI‑Drone → Scribus Python API → .sla
This gives you:
sponsor‑ready slides
magazine‑ready layouts
automated first drafts
human‑refined final designs
Exactly what the forum user wanted — but with your sovereign edge‑workflow discipline.
Me: ... I am debating my approach so thinking is rather raw. But it is along the lines of using Sublime Text to edit and validate *.sla. That much is working. But admittedly thoughts are early.
PS: I have used XMLCopyEditor to validate *.sla as well. Or XML Oxygen. But Sublime Text is powerful (with XML syntax installed .. Package Exalt.. You can add a Build of *.sla held in Sublime Text and this launches Scribus. I have a custom Scribus.sublime.build file.
#7
User Interface / Menu icons too small — Almost ...
Last post by sojulien - July 29, 2026, 09:45:58 PMHi dear scribus Community,
I'm a design student and my school Will cut my Adobe licence during the Summer. Anyway, I saw this as a sign to try out Scribus. But it's really hard for me to use due the menu size icons. I have a 14" MacBook Pro and (more likely ?) this is due to the amout of pixel in my screen.
But the icons are so small and the contrast ratio of their color is not making it easier. I can't even ses what they are refering to. Please if you have any pro tips I'll love to hear from you. Here is screenshot from my screen, to ses the correct size for the icons my screen is 3024 × 1964 pixels
Have a nice Day, bye bye <3
P.S. I've seen that this issue have been talk about in the past but has and solution been found since ?
I'm a design student and my school Will cut my Adobe licence during the Summer. Anyway, I saw this as a sign to try out Scribus. But it's really hard for me to use due the menu size icons. I have a 14" MacBook Pro and (more likely ?) this is due to the amout of pixel in my screen.
But the icons are so small and the contrast ratio of their color is not making it easier. I can't even ses what they are refering to. Please if you have any pro tips I'll love to hear from you. Here is screenshot from my screen, to ses the correct size for the icons my screen is 3024 × 1964 pixels
Have a nice Day, bye bye <3
P.S. I've seen that this issue have been talk about in the past but has and solution been found since ?
#8
General Discussion / Re: May 2026 - Mid July 2026
Last post by a.l.e - July 29, 2026, 07:13:40 PMWe now have two examples of what tables can do:
#9
General Discussion / Re: AI generated SLA file and ...
Last post by a.l.e - July 29, 2026, 07:09:16 PMQuestion:
Would anybody who has access to some vibe coding tool, be so kind and get their tool to generate some sort of schema / DTD that we can use to validate the .sla files?
Once we have one, I guess that it should be easy to keep it up to date...
And the AI tool could then use it to validate that it's doing something meaningful.
Would anybody who has access to some vibe coding tool, be so kind and get their tool to generate some sort of schema / DTD that we can use to validate the .sla files?
Once we have one, I guess that it should be easy to keep it up to date...
And the AI tool could then use it to validate that it's doing something meaningful.
#10
General Discussion / Re: AI generated SLA file and ...
Last post by datavectors - July 29, 2026, 12:18:58 AMIt is terribly complicated. My approach these days is not to go down that tight integration route but in fact launch a "UI drone" (helped by Claude or Gemmini - doesn't matter) to autodrive the Scribus UI (and other like UI's). Emulating eyes and fingers. i had that working today but then I pivoted. Some time ahead I'll demonstrate but not today. Think of a drone surveying the Scribus terrain. And other terrains.