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#1
Features / Re: Decimals and time in Scrib...
Last post by AdmFubar - September 18, 2025, 11:44:21 PM
In preferences/document setup/general tab is the language set to german?
#2
Installation and Setup / Re: Scribus not responding
Last post by AdmFubar - September 18, 2025, 11:39:59 PM
Quote from: a.l.e on September 18, 2025, 08:01:22 PMI gave it a try: on my machine it takes about a second to get there.

The whole start takes slightly more than two seconds on my machine.

For Scribus, pressing a key doing start does not seem to be a good solution.
(Users would have a hard time to press the key before Scribus has already started to read the prefs)

I never said anything about button, just an option. ;)

Now i'm wondering if any update recent updates from m$ may have adjusted some security features. and if scribus wasnt installed via windows "app" store it isnt considering it trusted code and wont let it access any files.
#3
Features / Decimals and time in Scribus
Last post by Flaxx - September 18, 2025, 10:43:22 PM
Hi there,

Compared to any office writer app (like in LibreOffice) the handling of numbers is different in Scribus as it neither knows a time notation, nor the usual decimal depiction in German.
I would expect a picture like this in German (first column) and English (the second one), both compared to Scribus:   
    DE           EN      Scribus 1.6.4
     9            9            9
     5,034        5.034        5,034
 1.201,66     1,201,66     1,201.66
     9:15         9:15      9:15
In English only the time depiction is ignored. An improvement would be on my wish list.
#4
Installation and Setup / Re: Scribus not responding
Last post by MrB - September 18, 2025, 10:19:55 PM
There's a defaults button in preferences already.


As for the app issue. This is more than likely an error with the drive or file system.
#5
Installation and Setup / Re: Scribus not responding
Last post by a.l.e - September 18, 2025, 08:01:22 PM
I gave it a try: on my machine it takes about a second to get there.

The whole start takes slightly more than two seconds on my machine.

For Scribus, pressing a key doing start does not seem to be a good solution.
(Users would have a hard time to press the key before Scribus has already started to read the prefs)


Adding a command line argument would be easy to program and would work reliably.
But most users don't have a clue, how to start an GUI program from the command line.
(And those who know, mostly also can rename the settings folder, when told to do so.)

I guess that the best would be to add a button in the preferences, to restore the preferences to the default (possibly by with also a way to backup the current ones and "download" them into a zip file that one could put in the bug tracker or use for restoring the settings / move the settings to a different computer).
The button for resetting is probably easy to implement.
Exporting the settings in a zip is probably also pretty easy.
Importing from the zip file is probably a bit more tricky.
#6
Installation and Setup / Re: Scribus not responding
Last post by a.l.e - September 18, 2025, 07:33:12 PM
Theoretically a good idea.

In practice, it depends on how fast Scribus starts reading the preferences...
#7
General Discussion / Re: Hyphenation and rules for ...
Last post by AdmFubar - September 18, 2025, 06:48:49 PM
LibreOffice does offer a Czech dictionary with hyphenation.
see, https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/czech-dictionaries

#8
PDF Generation / Re: Colors
Last post by AdmFubar - September 18, 2025, 06:36:35 PM
ion the pdf export panel there is an option to switch from screen/web to printer output. I'd check what it is set to and and if it is printer (CMYK) then set to screen/web and export. does this correct the issue for you?
#9
Installation and Setup / Re: Scribus not responding
Last post by AdmFubar - September 18, 2025, 06:32:44 PM
Given that the config file can get corrupted (and it seems to be a somewhat common occurrence), are there an option to start scribus to bypass the current config and start with a new config file? Something temporary to check if it is an issue. that way users wont have to go through the file gymnastics to rename the old one.
#10
General Discussion / Re: Hyphenation and rules for ...
Last post by a.l.e - September 18, 2025, 03:33:26 PM
Do other languages share the same rules?

Does any other free (or not free?) software offer better options?
LibreOffice?
Latex?