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#1
Text and Typography / Picking the ideal text importe...
Last post by Lynn - February 24, 2026, 07:02:47 PM
My current process in Scribus is this:
  • I download the base text of the book as a html file
  • I use a script to apply html header styles to components of the text (chapter titles, chapter numbers, first paragraph of chapter, first paragraph of scene, scene break ornaments)
  • I set the substitution fonts for bold, italic and bold italic to my body text style
  • I import using the html importer & reassign all those header styles to the component styles for the book

There are downsides of working directly from html are as follows:
  • I have to keep a cheatsheet reminding me which header style maps to which document style
  • Headers are all set to the bold substitution font. The only way to avoid this is to lie to Scribus and tell it to substitute bold fonts with the regular body text font. If course, then you have to manually add any bold text back in. I swear when I started this workflow in 1.4.8 it didn't bold the headers, but now it does.
  • There are a maximum of 6 html header types. This is plenty for an html document but I've started to run out - work title, author name, chapter title, chapter number, chapter title decoration, paragraph start, scene start and scene break gets me to eight. In a work with epistolary sections like letters or text messages I might have even more sections I need to flag. I've had to drop off the work and author names.

I've considered the libreoffice importer, but that would bring in far more information than I want. I don't want to retain any formatting from the original except bold, italics and the marking where the paragraph styles are.

Markdown automatically imports the bold and italic text as character styles, but retains all my other issues with HTML and adds a pandoc conversion step.

Theoretically, the text filter importer would work perfectly to map my "header" styles to paragraph styles without adding excess bolds. But unfortunately there's no way to set character styles in the text filter importer. I suppose I could regex the XML after importing with another script.

Any suggestions on whether I'm missing the perfect importer for my purposes, or should I keep on with html for now?
#2
Layout Issues / Re: Pb merging multiple sla fi...
Last post by chalavi - February 24, 2026, 01:25:53 PM
The problem is still there with Scribus 1.6.3 and with 1.7.2. Impossible to merge 2 sla files with the import pages functions. Images are imported, small individual text areas are imported, but not text areas that run across many pages. So I'm going to use PDF Arranger to merge PDF ...

Chalavi  :(
#3
General Discussion / Re: Will page imposition ever ...
Last post by Lynn - February 23, 2026, 06:38:00 PM
Very interesting script! It's interesting what settings are needed in different fields.

I do home bookbinding & rely on a web-based external imposition software (generally https://github.com/momijizukamori/bookbinder-js or https://sithel.github.io/vip/) because being able to automatically adjust signature lengths of the folded sections (and include markup like sewing stations) to minimize blank pages at the end is very useful. I've never been bothered by Scribus not integrating imposition - in my hobby even people using InDesign/Affinity are going out to these separate imposers because the default settings aren't optimized for our usage.
#4
General Discussion / Re: Will page imposition ever ...
Last post by sersha - February 23, 2026, 08:28:33 AM
Nice script!
My immediate question, in the saddle stitch do you have an option to account for so-called creep? Each consequent page will physically shift by the thickness of paper towards outer edge when assembled. Then, if you cut that edge, the printed margin will also shift by the PaperThickness * NumberOfSheets. Would be nice to implement such a function, if not present.

There is a virtual printer named Boomaga, which is doing similar task, but yours seems to be a bit more advanced.
#5
General Discussion / Re: Will page imposition ever ...
Last post by domeksoftware - February 23, 2026, 02:51:59 AM
Looking for this my code https://github.com/deser1/Book
#6
General Discussion / Re: Insert Pages... causes all...
Last post by Riquez - February 22, 2026, 09:34:47 PM
Gnome49+ is Wayland only now. But from what I read XWayland is an automatic translator - I dont think I can choose it?
#7
General Discussion / Re: Insert Pages... causes all...
Last post by a.l.e - February 22, 2026, 12:54:31 PM
As far as I know, Wayland is still not really supported.

Some things work, others don't.

If I recall correctly, you need to start Scribus with XWayland...
#8
General Discussion / Insert Pages... causes all pag...
Last post by Riquez - February 22, 2026, 11:04:25 AM
When I choose PAGE > Insert.. to add pages to my document (in any configuration, eg: 1 page at end)
The entire work area goes black & no pages are visible.

I can see the new pages in the Arrange Pages tab, but I cant click on them & see the pages. All pages are vanished from main view. No work is possible.
I can save the document, close the app, re-open & the new pages will be there.

Ive tested this on .appImage 1.7.2 & my distros package install 1.6.5

System info:
Scribus version: 1.6.5 & 1.7.2
Distro: Manjaro 26 Gnome 49 (arch based)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 4500U
GPU: Radeon Graphics
Display: Wayland

#9
Beginner Talk / Re: Single Line Drop Caps
Last post by rvodden - February 21, 2026, 08:37:54 PM
That was exactly it @utnik - when I changed the font size of the dropcap style to be the same as the font size of the rest of the text it worked perfectly. Thanks!
#10
Beginner Talk / Re: Single Line Drop Caps
Last post by utnik - February 20, 2026, 08:49:51 PM
hi rvodden

try to reduce the font size of the style for the drop caps to something below the value of the baseline grid.

utnik