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#1
Scripts and Plugins / Re: New AI-Powered Plugin: Gam...
Last post by Nermander - January 12, 2026, 04:07:57 PM
To me it looks like some kind av preflight verifier (looking at the screenshots), but it is interesting that despite all the information in the initial post there is really nothing at all saying what it does...
#2
PDF Generation / Re: Embed / Subset problem.
Last post by Nermander - January 12, 2026, 04:06:29 PM
Some fonts cannot be embedded (because the PDF format does not allow it), those fonts are converted to a font that can be embedded, and these are indicated as subset.
#3
PDF Generation / Embed / Subset problem.
Last post by Riquez - January 12, 2026, 01:01:40 AM
Hi,
When exporting a PDF I had left the embed fonts as the default - some were embed, some subset.
The resulting PDF was fine for me using Evince PDF viewer, but one font was garbled when the pdf was viewed in the web browser.
When I subsetted all the fonts, this was fixed.

 - I don't really know what "subset" is. - but whats going on here?

The garbled font was Spectral Bold (Spectral Regular displays fine) even though both these were in the embed column.

Why would that one font not work unless its subset, but all the other fonts not care either way?

Thanks for helping me understand.



#4
Scripts and Plugins / Re: New AI-Powered Plugin: Gam...
Last post by a.l.e - January 10, 2026, 06:11:34 PM
Well... since eight hours ago, there seems to be code that initialises a plug-in...

https://github.com/JochenWeerda/scribus-gamma-dashboard-plugin/blob/main/gamma_scribus_pack/plugin/cpp/gamma_dashboard_plugin.cpp
#5
Scripts and Plugins / Re: New AI-Powered Plugin: Gam...
Last post by MrB - January 10, 2026, 03:42:19 PM
There's now code at
https://github.com/JochenWeerda/scribus-gamma-dashboard-plugin/blob/main/apps/worker-scribus/scribus_export.py for example
#6
Scripts and Plugins / Re: New AI-Powered Plugin: Gam...
Last post by a.l.e - January 10, 2026, 09:03:26 AM
I have put a warning at the start of the thread and deactivated all links.

I'm not deleting the post, since I find it a fascinating example, of how much effort (sweat, GPU, tokens...) a person is ready to invest to create convincing trash.

The most worrying part: multiple people (me included) are spending time and brain cycles trying to figure out what is going on, and finding ways to cope with this craziness...

Finally, this might be the Linkedin profile of the same person...

weerda.png

an AI-expert.
Maybe, we are the ones, who are not getting it...

Sadly, since I'm not logged into Linkedin, I will never known, what the guy is searching...
I hate cliffhangers.

Who is volunteering to check his literary skills?

weerda-book.png
#7
Scripts and Plugins / Re: PDF Export via Script bugg...
Last post by a.l.e - January 10, 2026, 08:42:22 AM
Concerning the behavior when minimized on Windows:

Not sure how many of the people working on / with scripts are using Windows...
I am not, and I won't be able to try to reproduce, except if you give a "simple" way to reproduce.

Would you mind, trying to find "simple" reproducible steps so that other people can test if this happens also on their machine?

Concerning the crashes when the resolution changes:

You might want to run Scribus while running in a debugger (like gdb) so that there is a chance to figure out what is happening.

In both cases, as soon as you have more detailed information, you might then want to file a ticket in https://bugs.scribus.net
#8
Announcements and Forum Rules / Scribus 1.7.2 released
Last post by MrB - January 09, 2026, 11:16:17 PM
#9
Scripts and Plugins / PDF Export via Script buggy un...
Last post by wu5ch31 - January 09, 2026, 11:53:55 AM
Hi everyone,

I am currently writing some convoluted script to create PDF files (can be several hundred) from existing data. My main PC is running Fedora, and there I have no issues. But when I run the scripts on my Windows machine, I get some strange behaviour:

As long as the Scribus window is active, everything seems to be fine. But when I minimize the window, script execution seems to pause and ram usage is shooting up. I experienced several crashes, too, i.e. when the monitor configuration changes (my docking station is doing funky things from time to time...).

On Fedora as well as on Windows, I am running the latest stable version (1.6.5). Does anyone have similar experiences? The strange behaviour is only in Windows, so I suppose this is a bug, where would I be supposed to report it?

BR
Jens
#10
PDF Generation / Re: PDF Tools Bar and clickabl...
Last post by OSDP - January 08, 2026, 02:42:07 PM
The method for "Adding Hyperlinks to your Scribus PDF document" is explain here : https://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Adding_Hyperlinks_to_your_Scribus_PDF_document

You can create a special layer only for the "pdf annotation" (where you config your hyperlink)