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#11
Layout Issues / Re: Help with image import and...
Last post by AdmFubar - July 20, 2026, 10:06:09 PMQuote from: Carl_bach on June 17, 2025, 08:09:39 AMI'm a freelance designer, and I dumped Adobe and more for Affinity a couple of years ago. I would stick with Affinity in the future, but they don't release for Linux.There is a way to get it running on linux. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2VTesfiaG8&vl=en
Havent tried it myself. maybe one day
#12
Beginner Talk / Re: Help me understand the doc...
Last post by AdmFubar - July 20, 2026, 09:45:28 PMIt is just a limit of the current zoom level. from the main menu, go to File/Preferences, in the window that opens look for Operator Tools, it is listed about midway down on the left, select and the tab should be set to zoom, your minimum is sent to somewhere around 20%. adjust to your liking.
almost forgot, you will need to restart scribus to activate the change.
almost forgot, you will need to restart scribus to activate the change.
#13
Beginner Talk / Re: Help me understand the doc...
Last post by MrB - July 20, 2026, 09:04:45 PMThere's no bug, that's just how the canvas is written. You have not said what you are trying to achieve though, and why having a larger canvas when the page is small is important.
#14
Beginner Talk / Re: Help me understand the doc...
Last post by Plop - July 20, 2026, 02:08:11 PMFWIW, some more info : on creating an empty 20x10cm document there seems to be some kind of hard-coded or hidden property (seemingly not found in the xml) limiting the canvas surface available for panning. It appears to be roughly 33cm wide and 34cm tall in this case. Here's a temporary upload :
#15
Beginner Talk / Help me understand the documen...
Last post by Plop - July 20, 2026, 04:12:06 AMHello all,
I've recently discovered Scribus. Feature-wise it looks fantastic as it seems to have everything I need for two upcoming publishing projects.
However I am having issues with the way document view panning behaves. (Note that I do understand the difference between the concepts of "cursor-centered scroll zooming" and that of "step zooming" relative to the currently selected element.)
Here is some footage showing my problem. It shows that depending on the zoom level I am at (and also depending on the way I've zoomed to that point, either by using cursor scroll zooming or step zooming), my document panning range gets limited in odd, unexpected ways.
I understand that the document scratch distances can play a role here, and that cursor-centered zoom can get one out bounds so to speak. But still, I always seem to hit some invisible bounding box making the review of the current document more frustrating that it should be. Perhaps this is related to some hidden document property for canvas size or work area ?
For the sake of comparison I am including some footage from Inkscape. It lets me pan around very freely and that makes a world of difference when reviewing a large number of pages - I can go wherever I want and I am never hitting any kind of boundary when panning, even when going far to the sides. The same kind of freedom is possible in every 2D CAD software, and also in the vast majority of raster and vector creation software.
This is obviously not a deal breaker as this doesn't impact document editing in and of itself. But still, could someone please help me understand what to expect ? Or am I running into a bug ?
I've recently discovered Scribus. Feature-wise it looks fantastic as it seems to have everything I need for two upcoming publishing projects.
However I am having issues with the way document view panning behaves. (Note that I do understand the difference between the concepts of "cursor-centered scroll zooming" and that of "step zooming" relative to the currently selected element.)
Here is some footage showing my problem. It shows that depending on the zoom level I am at (and also depending on the way I've zoomed to that point, either by using cursor scroll zooming or step zooming), my document panning range gets limited in odd, unexpected ways.
I understand that the document scratch distances can play a role here, and that cursor-centered zoom can get one out bounds so to speak. But still, I always seem to hit some invisible bounding box making the review of the current document more frustrating that it should be. Perhaps this is related to some hidden document property for canvas size or work area ?
For the sake of comparison I am including some footage from Inkscape. It lets me pan around very freely and that makes a world of difference when reviewing a large number of pages - I can go wherever I want and I am never hitting any kind of boundary when panning, even when going far to the sides. The same kind of freedom is possible in every 2D CAD software, and also in the vast majority of raster and vector creation software.
This is obviously not a deal breaker as this doesn't impact document editing in and of itself. But still, could someone please help me understand what to expect ? Or am I running into a bug ?
#16
Linux / Re: Scribus 1.7.3 crashes due ...
Last post by SilverGreen93 - July 19, 2026, 10:43:49 AMQuote from: MrB on July 09, 2026, 10:02:16 PMI think I have fixed this in 1.6.7.svn/1.7.4.svn
Will test this when 1.7.4 is "released", as I don't see a 1.7.4 tag/directory yet.
#17
General Discussion / Re: Best way to use an Illustr...
Last post by AdmFubar - July 18, 2026, 11:48:11 PMI take it that you mean InDesign, and not Illustrator?
#18
Free discussion / Re: VivaDesigner
Last post by AdmFubar - July 16, 2026, 12:34:59 AMit is molasses in january slow.. i thought it might be a bad appimage implementation. interface is oddly limited.
#19
Free discussion / Re: VivaDesigner
Last post by utnik - July 15, 2026, 10:04:31 PMhi admfubar
i used it in the nineties. it was called 'vivaPress' and brought some new possibilities quarkXPress and pageMaker didn't offer. but i never looked at it in the last 25 years. (compared with inDesign it was slow on the same hardware...)
what is the frustrating part of the actual versions?
utnik
i used it in the nineties. it was called 'vivaPress' and brought some new possibilities quarkXPress and pageMaker didn't offer. but i never looked at it in the last 25 years. (compared with inDesign it was slow on the same hardware...)
what is the frustrating part of the actual versions?
utnik
#20
Free discussion / VivaDesigner
Last post by AdmFubar - July 15, 2026, 09:00:31 PMAnyone here try it? I've used 3-4 dtp programs over the years and i've found this one extremely frustrating to use just trying out some simple layout testing.