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General Discussion / Re: Lack of reliable IDML impo...

Last post by ScribasTester - Today at 09:40:06 AM

LibreOffice provides these 11 Fonts (as an example in 24 pt)

if you can provide a solution to render them while working and to convert them to static fonts in the export process

Unfortunately, I can't do that, and my original post clearly explains why I can't recommend the current version of Scribus to people looking to switch from InDesign.

does libreoffice support just them or the full variability of the font? (wich would include 49282 variants...)

I never asked for "49'282 variants" - I just (wrongly) expected the 11 basic "Myriad Variable Concept" fonts to be supported by Scribus and not only an "Italic" or "Roman" version of it.

BTW
Windows 11 itself shows 40 fonts:

like these

#2

Text and Typography / Re: The italic font is not sho...

Last post by AdmFubar - August 04, 2026, 09:28:48 PM

One thing the Story Editor does well is just show the column and frame breaks, and no other "invisibles". Good for showing those from imported texts.

#3

Text and Typography / Re: The italic font is not sho...

Last post by Aleks100 - August 04, 2026, 08:00:45 PM

So, you can use Story Editor if you have no need for some useful modern features. Fine.

#4

Text and Typography / Re: The italic font is not sho...

Last post by a.l.e - August 04, 2026, 06:19:34 PM

First, there was some text after that:

> if you don't really really really need it for the specific task.

Second: it's old crap and many modern useful fearures are not there and can't really be added to it.

#5

Text and Typography / Re: The italic font is not sho...

Last post by Aleks100 - August 04, 2026, 05:24:04 PM

why?

The first rule of Scribus is not to use the Story Editor

#6

General Discussion / Re: Lack of reliable IDML impo...

Last post by utnik - August 04, 2026, 02:13:07 PM

hi scribastester

afaik variable fonts are not supported in scribus (so far...)
there are old feature requests like this one. if you can provide a solution to render them while working and to convert them to static fonts in the export process, there might be a good chance to make them work.
your screenshot from libreoffice shows the predefined styles. does libreoffice support just them or the full variability of the font? (wich would include 49282 variants...)

utnik

#7

General Discussion / Re: Lack of reliable IDML impo...

Last post by ScribasTester - August 04, 2026, 12:46:24 PM

I created and exported a simple *.idml with the mentionend fonts from Adobe InDesign v21.

InDesign-Test-File-for-Scribus-Support


As you can see from your Scribus -console, there seems to be a problem loading the various "subtypes" of the "Myriad Variable Concept" font
(I don't know the specific English term for it).

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Debug: Die Schrift C:\Users\MyUserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts\MyriadVariableConcept-Roman.otf(1) ist ein Duplikat von C:\Users\MyUserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts\MyriadVariableConcept-Roman.otf(1)(F:\Scribus for Windows\scribus-1.7.x-svn\Scribus\scribus\util_debug.cpp:39, void __cdecl sDebug(const class QString &))
Debug: Die Schrift C:\Users\MyUserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts\MyriadVariableConcept-Italic.otf(1) ist ein Duplikat von C:\Users\MyUserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts\MyriadVariableConcept-Italic.otf(1)(F:\Scribus for Windows\scribus-1.7.x-svn\Scribus\scribus\util_debug.cpp:39, void __cdecl sDebug(const class QString &))
Debug: Die Schrift C:\Users\MyUserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts\MyriadPro-Bold.otf(1) ist ein Duplikat von C:\Users\MyUserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts\MyriadPro-Bold.otf(1)(F:\Scribus for Windows\scribus-1.7.x-svn\Scribus\scribus\util_debug.cpp:39, void __cdecl sDebug(const class QString &))
Debug: Die Schrift C:\Users\MyUserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts\MyriadPro-BoldIt.otf(1) ist ein Duplikat von C:\Users\MyUserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts\MyriadPro-BoldIt.otf(1)(F:\Scribus for Windows\scribus-1.7.x-svn\Scribus\scribus\util_debug.cpp:39, void __cdecl sDebug(const class QString &))
Debug: Die Schrift C:\Users\MyUserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts\MyriadPro-It.otf(1) ist ein Duplikat von C:\Users\MyUserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts\MyriadPro-It.otf(1)(F:\Scribus for Windows\scribus-1.7.x-svn\Scribus\scribus\util_debug.cpp:39, void __cdecl sDebug(const class QString &))
Debug: Die Schrift C:\Users\MyUserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts\MyriadPro-Regular.otf(1) ist ein Duplikat von C:\Users\MyUserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts\MyriadPro-Regular.otf(1)(F:\Scribus for Windows\scribus-1.7.x-svn\Scribus\scribus\util_debug.cpp:39, void __cdecl sDebug(const class QString &))
These are the fonts recognized by Scribus v1.7.3:


HTH

#8

Scripts and Plugins / Re: Get or Set Image Rotation

Last post by BS69 - August 03, 2026, 12:46:36 PM

Hi,

So I am testing it since few weeks and it works very well. Again thank you !!!

I'm using this commands to crop images from my marine species photobook (more than 500 images so far) and it's a huge difference on the final pdf. I use a lot zoom and rotation, so only a part of the image is relevant to me.

A script entry to crop image or even a menu command would be fine, as when I search I saw many people trying to do it. The algorythm was quite tricky to me, now it works well, but not easy. I can give my code if anyone's interested.

#9

General Discussion / Re: Lack of reliable IDML impo...

Last post by MrB - August 02, 2026, 10:02:05 PM

You could search replace all text with a random letter perhaps. We don't need the content .

#10

General Discussion / Re: Lack of reliable IDML impo...

Last post by ScribasTester - August 02, 2026, 12:34:30 PM

I don't know if this helps, but this is how "LibreOffice Writer" shows the installed font: