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#1
Text and Typography / Re: my letters turn into dotte...
Last post by RodneyLee - Today at 03:39:28 PM
can you upload a sample that does this?
#2
Text and Typography / my letters turn into dotted li...
Last post by PN - Today at 03:10:55 PM
Hello,
When I export to PDF, the solid borders on my letters turn into dotted lines!
How can I prevent this?
Thank you
#3
MacOS / Re: Just Downloaded
Last post by utnik - March 20, 2026, 01:33:51 PM
hi jonr
Quote from: JonR on March 20, 2026, 09:09:03 AM...I have just found the "F3" text Properties button which sort of answers my question. These controls really should be available in the top menu bar.
just take a look at the 'windows' menu...

but i would recommend to use styles for the best part of the typography settings.

utnik
#4
MacOS / Just Downloaded
Last post by JonR - March 20, 2026, 09:09:03 AM
Just downloaded Scribus and on outset it looks great. However, so far as I can see the only way of doing any form of typography is by entering a separate window and updating there without seeing how it affects the layout in real time. On the main window there is no typography control whatsoever, no font choice, no sizing, no leading or tracking, nothing. Am I missing something,is there a button I should have checked at setup? Because Scribus looks great but this flaw totally kills the package for me.

I have just found the "F3" text Properties button which sort of answers my question. These controls really should be available in the top menu bar.
#5
Layout Issues / Internal references are gone a...
Last post by Flaxx - March 19, 2026, 10:02:59 PM
Hi there,

In order to share our work we are deviding a monthly newsletter in three parts and it's my part compiling it to a single sla before exporting the result. Mostly I need to rearrange the containing text frames (a bunch of small articles).

The main file contains usually a chess problem that finally should refer to another page showing the solution. It works perfectly when I'm placing the mark and the reference to it myself, but if I'm copying the related text frames from a file where it worked to my compilation (the same source file, BTW) no page number is shown anymore.

Okay, my solution is, separating the frame that should show the page reference and leave it away when copying the rest. Same with the solution page containing the text mark. It's just more work.

A can find the given name of this mark in the source sla, but it doesn't work.
Now I'm asking, is it a bug or a feature (I know, it's still experimental).

A related question that might lead to a feature request:
I didn't find a way finding out where marks and similar elements are placed, only that there should be something somewhere. I wish it would be possible making them visible like TABs, spaces, etc.
#6
Layout Issues / Re: Kening issues copying Libr...
Last post by Flaxx - March 19, 2026, 09:01:29 PM
Quote from: chimaera on February 10, 2026, 05:07:17 PMHello fellow designers!
I'm having a great time with Scribus, but tables have been the bane of my existence. When copying tables over from LibreCalc to Scribus, I'm getting errors with text kerning that's causing certain characters and combinations of characters to appear garbled, or not appear at all. I'm using Monserrat Medium for the font in both LibreCalc and Scribus.

I'd love to hear if anyone has had similar issues, and how you solved it. I'd like to keep using Scribus, but I'm early enough in my layout that I'm happy to use something else if I'm unable to fix this, as tables are essential for the book I'm designing.

Thanks for reading!

TLDR: copying LibreCalc table to Scribus results in kerning errors

I'm using a way circumventing such problems, but it might be too complicated:

First I'm exporting the table to PDF,First I'm exporting the table to pdf. Then I load the resulting PDF in Inkscape, mark and group the table I want and export it again as pdf (just the marked area).
Finally I import it in Scribus (no text, pure graphics - unfortunately Scribus still can't handle the text.). If necessary I treat the final export with OCR, keeping the pictured table perfectly readable as it is.
#7
General Discussion / Re: Tables
Last post by crlMIDI - March 18, 2026, 05:57:11 PM
Workarounds (@PastaShock) seem to be the way to go here, though I'd rephrase that by proposing better connectivity between applications, mainly LibreOffice, Inkscape, LaTeX and Scribus. Each has its own essential uses for finished documents, but users with different experience and amounts of know-how need to be able to switch between them more easily.

Everyone needs to make last-minute alterations, without the chosen workarounds getting into a mess with directory structures, page layouts and so on.

Most often, a key user requirement of a workaround, not just for published work, is to have control over character fonts and sizes; good typographical practice generally requires variation to be limited here.

I read this thread hoping to find the current best solution for including tables in language teaching handouts for primary school children. Depending on the language, you may need various tables, for example for conjugating verbs. While the kids don't mind, the exercise in PAO, with images, frames and items of text, is exactly the same as for a local history exhibition or a poster at a scientific congress.

My simplest workaround for a small-ish table for school seems to be to make it in Writer, where nice formatting is easier than in Calc. I select the table and export it as PDF, which Scribus can import as vectors; 'Collect for Output' sets up a directory that can be used to keep the files together. Presently, LO seems to forget its export filepaths, but I guess that will be fixed. A limitation is that, as far as I can see, Scribus doesn't fix the aspect ratio of the image by default, and the original dimensions are not given under Properties – if you mess up you have to go back to the PDF.

PastaShock, in response to @a.l.e's proposal to use Tabs, is considering writing code to do that. A big advantage is that the tables are searchable. In fact, that's how LaTeX does it complete with lines, though as usual the code isn't too easy if you don't use it every day. I don't know if it would be possible to convert or port the LaTeX code to Scribus, so we could use the same coding for two applications (like with some equation editors) – perhaps that's what AI is supposed to be good for.

On the subject of AI, LaTeX is half a century old, and built from a huge number of well-documented macros. It's still very powerful, with a huge number of users, and a corresponding (sometimes conflicting) amount of help on the web. Perhaps an AI project might produce a user interface to provide more user-friendly guidance and enable LaTeX to interact better with Scribus.

Finally, Scribus already has a specific render frame for LateX. Render frames can used to code any content, including vectorial graphics from its Tikz ecosystem and nicely typeset extended blocks of text, if they fit on a page. Again, the text is not directly searchable. A local installation is needed. By contrast (to exaggerate a bit), Scribus concentrates more on individual typesetting tools which may require typesetting skills I don't have.  Render frames seem to be underdeveloped, at least with respect to the documentation, which I found hard to follow in the context of the normal LaTeX markup preamble which defines fonts and so on.

It's been noted that Scribus render frames are bitmap images and you have to find out how to adjust the settings. Inkskape makes vectorial render frames, but I don't want to hop between 3 applications...

#8
Beginner Talk / Re: Frame coordinates changing...
Last post by CycloneVonSleet - March 18, 2026, 12:52:17 AM
Back already- It seems at some point the option "View -> Measurement -> Rulers relative to page" was unchecked. I haven't manually updated the software since starting the project, but I'm not certain it never automatically updated. Checking it reverts my coordinates back to their previous behavior.

I couldn't find this topic discussed elsewhere, so hopefully this helps someone else in the future. Marking as "Solved"
#9
Beginner Talk / [SOLVED] Frame coordinates cha...
Last post by CycloneVonSleet - March 18, 2026, 12:38:48 AM
I've returned to a project after around a month's hiatus to find that my text frames on every page have shifted slightly on the x axis, which is annoying but not a big deal; however the y coordinate of each frame steadily increments each page, despite having the same visual position relative to the page it is on. I'm worried that while I was away, Scribus decided that every frame in my document should have its coordinates related to page 1, instead of the page the frame is contained within.

The Y value is incrementing in equal steps, and they appear to correspond to the page height plus the scratch area between pages vertically. For what it's worth, the X coordinates of every "right" page are also offset by the width of one page, but this is in addition to them also no longer being centered mathematically, despite visually still being centered. For reference, my pages are 8.4 inches wide, but an x coordinate for the center point of a text frame set to 4.2 inches is way off to the left. This is also new behavior.

This behavior wasn't happening when I last worked on this project, and I'm worried about what it means for the longevity and stability of my document. It's also very disruptive to my workflow as I manually position the bounds of each frame my manually editing the values under Geometry in the Properties panel. What can I do to fix all of this?

Using Scribus 1.6.2 on Windows 11 Pro 25H2.
#10
Code / Re: PythonAPI and groups
Last post by a.l.e - March 17, 2026, 07:21:22 PM
there is a patch having a good life in the bug tracker...

https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=17490