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#1
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
#2
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.
#3
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 ?
#4
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:
#5
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.
#6
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.
#7
General Discussion / Re: AI generated SLA file and ...
Last post by MrB - July 28, 2026, 08:51:42 PMYou might want to look into https://github.com/caewa/scribus-mcp . Not our code but they did request a minor change to Scribus that I committed some time ago.
#8
General Discussion / Re: AI generated SLA file and ...
Last post by datavectors - July 28, 2026, 06:45:12 PMJust noticed "the need for speed" requirement. Presumably fast editing of columns. If you are on Ubuntu, another "pairing" is launcher Albert (use the Snippets extension). Then your Albert snippets opening in Sublime Text can be merged into the main *.sla also open (raw XML) in Sublime Text. The number of pairings grows. If you are in Mac use Alfred. To launch a snip in Ubuntu/Albert it is simply . Ctrl+Shift+Space .. then type "snip (space)". Unconventional I agree.
#9
General Discussion / Re: Best way to use an Illustr...
Last post by datavectors - July 28, 2026, 03:57:22 PMJust idly browsing around after rejoining forum. Adding this observation. In the same way that Scribus *.sla (XML) can be viewed and edited in the raw in Sublime Text, so can other XML based formats such as Adobe be viewed/edited. Raw experiment explained here. https://forums.scribus.net/index.php?msg=28427
#10
General Discussion / Re: AI generated SLA file and ...
Last post by datavectors - July 28, 2026, 03:34:00 PMI have just returned to Scribus after a long period away. I had to register again but my old posts are lurking around. I spotted this post which aligns with my workflow often called unconventional. But what I am doing right now is "pairing" Scribus with Sublime Text. That is I tinker with teaming several apps to achieve a workflow. If you install Sublime Text the first step is install Exalt package (XML syntax). Then you can open Scribus *.sla file inside Sublime Text. You see all the messy SLA XML innards but soon get used to modifying raw *.sla text. The useful part of this teaming is that you can now create and inject Subl snippets (SLA parts) into your *.sla code. Now comes the hard part. You have to reverse this process and "Build" a Scribus *.sla from the edited Subl code to update the original *.sla. For this a Scribus.sublime.build code is built. So there you have it. You can automate Scribus as well as using ScribusGenerator. Team work. I can expand on workflow if you wish. I am batch processing using this raw method. And using AI to generate the "driving" code .. not the content which is left to the author.