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#1
General Discussion / What Does the Audiobook Produc...
Last post by laraford - Today at 02:01:33 AM
I have been seriously considering turning my book into an audiobook but every time I start researching I feel like I am missing a clear picture of how everything actually works. A published author friend told me that understanding the audiobook production process from start to finish before committing to anything saved her a lot of time and money. That advice really resonated with me. Has anyone here been through the full process and could walk me through what to realistically expect?
#2
PDF Generation / Re: Can we suppress the "Progr...
Last post by utnik - May 20, 2026, 05:50:27 PM
hi henrylaw

you'll find those settings under 'preferences' → 'preflight verifier'. here you can define a profile for every .pdf version.

utnik
#3
PDF Generation / Can we suppress the "Progressi...
Last post by henrylaw - May 20, 2026, 09:40:27 AM
My pre-flight verifier has dozens of messages with the text "Image has progressive encoding". I know what progressive encoding is, so:

1. Why is it a bad thing in Scribus? Ignoring them doesn't seem to have any bad effect on the PDF or the printed document.

2. Since I routinely ignore those messages, can I suppress them?

[1.7.1svn on Linux Mint (Ubuntu)]
#4
General Discussion / Re: Multilingual management / ...
Last post by MarkoFlow - May 19, 2026, 04:12:12 PM
Quote from: nenex-ordi-libre on May 16, 2026, 01:50:47 PMWhen I said to do it manually, I was referring to the edits, not the translations themselves.

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Quand je disais le faire manuellement, c'est pour les modifications, pas les traductions elles-mêmes.
thanks
#5
Linux / Re: Scribus 1.7.2 Imported Col...
Last post by Portreve - May 17, 2026, 11:41:13 PM
Alright, so it's been some time, and I thought I'd add a little more to the discussion.

I'm now running Aurora OS (i.e. a Universal Blue packaging of Fedora / KDE) and running into the same issue as previously. BUT... WAIT FOR IT...

I installed the Flatpak version and it works perfectly. So, the new current conclusion I've come to is that containerization is a factor, and basically it's interfering with this program's normal functioning.
#6
General Discussion / Re: Multilingual management / ...
Last post by nenex-ordi-libre - May 16, 2026, 01:50:47 PM
When I said to do it manually, I was referring to the edits, not the translations themselves.

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Quand je disais le faire manuellement, c'est pour les modifications, pas les traductions elles-mêmes.
#7
User Interface / Re: Wrapping Text Around an Im...
Last post by utnik - May 16, 2026, 07:58:21 AM
    hi zerubbabel

    i don't know if there is a full documentation of the palettes of the development version. (i never searched for it...) but wrapping text around images works in the same way as in older versions.
    if it's just a rectangular image:
    • select it and go to ,properties' → ,shape'.
    • select the fourth text flow icon (the tooltip says: ,text flow around contour line').
    • click on ,edit'
    • at the bottom of the appearing ,nodes' palette click on the second icon (the tooltip says: ,activate contour line editing mode'. afaik this is the only difference to the previous versions where there was a checkbox for this...
    • here you can increase or decrease the contour line by fixed values or change it manually as in older versions.

    utnik
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General Discussion / Re: Multilingual management / ...
Last post by utnik - May 16, 2026, 07:33:52 AM
Quote from: nenex-ordi-libre on May 14, 2026, 09:14:34 AM...As for updating the text, you have to do it manually anyway, right?

there may be automated solutions. but you would need to correct the results anyway. that's why i would do it rather manually than dealing with garbage later...

utnik
#9
Layout Issues / Re: Choosing layout for a page...
Last post by Nermander - May 15, 2026, 08:54:43 PM
You can place a whole page of contents in the scrapbook. Doubleclicking the item in the scrapbook will insert them in the same places as when they were sent to the scrapbook.

The disadvantage of importing pages is you will also get the page properties (like left or right page), which may mean you need two of each "template".
#10
General Discussion / Re: Right to Left, RTL layout,...
Last post by a.l.e - May 15, 2026, 08:18:58 PM
First page left or right is not about the direction, only about the placement of the first page.

The newest development version does have what you are looking for (the RTL binding), but I don't think it's in the latest development release 1.7.3.

If you're on Linux and you're brave enough, you can look for the nightly Appimage.
Maybe, there is a snapshot for your system, or somebody can create: which OS are you using?

P.s: there's seems to be a very fresh snapshot for windows:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus-svn/1.7.4.svn/

The Appimage is

https://gitlab.com/scribus/scribus/-/jobs/artifacts/master/raw/Scribus-nightly-x86_64.AppImage?job=appimage%3Alinux