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#11
Text and Typography / Re: Outline text without the t...
Last post by PhilipL - February 13, 2026, 06:56:30 PM
Oops. My eyesight is going!
#12
Features / Re: Styles, Master pages, Scra...
Last post by joseb - February 13, 2026, 05:19:37 PM
Quote from: a.l.e on February 12, 2026, 09:15:04 PMan even better solution could be:

-first select the item with the new position and size
- then add to the selection the next item with the old position / size
- all following items with matching position / size to the second item will be changed to match the first item in the selection.

A script like the second one suggested could be very interesting (in my opinion).


BY SAME POSITION vs BY SELECTION
I like that it automatically searches for other objects with the same position. Selecting them one by one may be fine, but I always think of long documents where it is time-consuming to scroll through all the pages, even with a zoom from afar to select many objects.


BY KEYWORDS CONTAINED IN THE NAME
I have suggested that the script search for keywords within the name of each object for the following advantages:

1_ It is not necessary to manually go through the entire document to select the objects to be changed.

2_ You can play around with different keywords to "filter" various objects. Imagine objects called:
- "Text_Central"
- "Image_Central"
- "Text_Lateral"
- "Side_Image
When you run the script for the keyword "Central," both objects named 'Central_Text' and "Central_Image" will change.
When you run the script for the keyword "Text," 'Text_Central' and "Text_Lateral" will be synchronized.

This may not make much sense to most users and may be contaminated with my way of working.


MY PROBLEMS WITH SCRIPTS THAT SELECT MULTIPLE OBJECTS
I tried to generate a script to synchronize all the selected objects myself, but I had problems. That's why I decided to base the script on keywords within the name of each object.

Then I tried to generate a script that would rename all the objects I had selected... but I couldn't get that to work either... I could only rename the objects that were on the same page.

The problem was always that I don't know how to work with many selected objects on multiple pages:
- I think that currently the scripting API only allows access to the selection on the active page using selectionCount() and getSelectedObject(i).
- I don't know if there is a function similar to getSelectedObjects() that returns all the objects selected in the document. Or if selectionCount() operates on the global selection. Optionally, a getObjectPage(obj) or isSelected(obj) function.

OTHER IMPROVEMENTS THAT COULD HELP SCRIPTS OR SIMPLY BETTER ORGANIZE A SCRIBUS FILE
I would love for Scribus to allow renaming many objects at once. For example:
- I select three objects.
- In the properties panel, I change the name to "A".
- Scribus renames the three objects as "A_001," "A_002," and "A_003".
#13
Text and Typography / Re: Outline text without the t...
Last post by a.l.e - February 13, 2026, 04:06:06 PM
Sc-ri-bu-s

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#14
Text and Typography / Re: Outline text without the t...
Last post by PhilipL - February 13, 2026, 03:42:22 PM
Well, I must be pretty thick. Can't work out how Scribus does not have 6 letters. Had to wait for a different question to reply.
#15
Linux / Re: Disappearing Action Search...
Last post by Lynn - February 13, 2026, 02:06:01 PM
Changing the name and relaunching Scribus works to make a new preferences template & that template seems to retain new keyboard shortcuts I add. I pulled up a file difference checker to see what was different and it appears that if I generate the .rc file in the 1.6.4 appimage vs the 1.5.8 I have installed a lot of the components are in slightly different orders.

I wonder if that's what confused it - I'd been pulling up 1.6.4 to test a script I was writing that needed scripter commands that weren't in my installed version. But I tested alternating back and forth just now and it didn't seem to cause any issues with shortcuts disappearing. It's also possible that the original .rc file was from a very long time ago and had gotten corrupted somewhere along the way through various computer upgrades.

Regardless, thanks for the tip, everything seems to work now. I'll set up my preferences again so it saves to the new file.
#16
Text and Typography / Re: Lorem Ipsum in Spanish
Last post by joseb - February 13, 2026, 12:49:59 PM
Hello, I am Spanish and I am 36 years old.

I believe that Don Quijote de la Mancha can be recognised as a "lorem ipsum" perfectly well by many Spanish speakers. The first sentence is known by 99% of Spanish speakers (En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme...)

As the novel Don Quijote de la Mancha is very long, the sample text should be limited to the first paragraph (or the first and second paragraphs if more text is needed).

I am copying the first paragraph, where the first words are the best known:

En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no ha mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y galgo corredor. Una olla de algo más vaca que carnero, salpicón las más noches, duelos y quebrantos los sábados, lantejas los viernes, algún palomino de añadidura los domingos, consumían las tres partes de su hacienda. El resto della concluían sayo de velarte, calzas de velludo para las fiestas, con sus pantuflos de lo mesmo, y los días de entresemana se honraba con su vellorí de lo más fino. Tenía en su casa una ama que pasaba de los cuarenta, y una sobrina que no llegaba a los veinte, y un mozo de campo y plaza, que así ensillaba el rocín como tomaba la podadera. Frisaba la edad de nuestro hidalgo con los cincuenta años; era de complexión recia, seco de carnes, enjuto de rostro, gran madrugador y amigo de la caza. Quieren decir que tenía el sobrenombre de Quijada, o Quesada, que en esto hay alguna diferencia en los autores que deste caso escriben; aunque, por conjeturas verosímiles, se deja entender que se llamaba Quejana. Pero esto importa poco a nuestro cuento; basta que en la narración dél no se salga un punto de la verdad.
#17
General Discussion / Scribus e QuarkXPress
Last post by Alina_P - February 13, 2026, 11:06:27 AM
Utilizzo QuarkXpress da 25 anni, ma vorrei capire come funziona Scribus rispetto appunto a XPress. Fra le altre cose volevo chiedere: come si comporta Scribus con la sillabazione (è semplice ottenere il testo giustificato inserendo le lineette degli a capo dove si vuole?). Nel caso di libri c'è la possibilità di avere la funzione libro con i capitoli inseriti in una sorta appunto di raccoglitore-libro come nel caso di X-Press? C'è qualche utente di QuarkXPress che mi può dare qualche informazione?
I file di QuarkXpress non si aprono con Scribus (penso sia inevitabile)?
Grazie infinite...
#18
Scripts and Plugins / Re: Assign a formatted text to...
Last post by Tro. - February 13, 2026, 08:41:20 AM
Hello everyone,

The aim of insertHtmlText is very simple and very helpful. More extensive character formatting would not be suitable for a Scribus text frame.

I suspect that insertHtmlText is faulty, incomplete or insufficiently documented. A new function would not be useful in terms of efficiency until the symptoms described for insertHtmlText have been addressed.

Therefore, I contacted a Scribus developer (from the GUI help) as follows.

I have test data (TC1008) and am happy to make it available.


,,The Scribus Wiki refers to the addresses listed in the Scribus Help for contacting the Scribus team.
I am having trouble with the scribus.insertHtmlText function.
Therefore, I am turning to you for assistance.
Can you provide me with up-to-date documentation?
Does a bug need to be reported?

Objective:
1.       Overall objective: automatic creation of Scribus typesetting files as image catalogs
2.       Use of the scribus.insertHtmlText function to import text, including bold and italic character formatting, into a text frame.
3.       The text to be imported consists mainly of one paragraph.
4.       In exceptional cases, the text to be imported consists of up to 30 paragraphs.

Initial situation:
1.       Scribus API description: https://impagina.org/scribus-scripter-api/
2.       This description only names the function. It does not describe the necessary control of styles, from HTML tags to character formatting in the Scribus document.
3.       Chat-GPT responds to the specific question about using scribus.insertHtmlText: "Unfortunately, the documentation on this is very sparse, and there is no official, documented list of which style names Scribus uses or expects internally for <b>, <u>, etc."

Symptom description:
1.       The function reads text from the HTML file into a text frame.
2.       The character formatting does not match the expected result.
Test Case 1008:
1.      additional conditions : Windows 10, Scribus Version 1.6 und Version 1.7.3
2.       Statements: TC1008.txt
3.       html-File, file name: TC1008_a.html, TC1008_b.html, TC1008_c.html
4.      Screenshot of the result , file name: TC1008_a_Result.png, TC1008_b_Result.png, TC1008_c_Result.png
5.       Screenshot of the expected result, file name: TC1008_b_Goal.png

I look forward to hearing from you."
#19
Linux / Re: Disappearing Action Search...
Last post by AdmFubar - February 13, 2026, 04:50:28 AM
Sounds like your config file isnt getting updated like it should. Without scribus running, rename the the config file. Then restart scribus and let it rebuild the .rc file. Exit scribus and edit the file to update the shortcut, and save. then start scribus again and see if the shortcut is there.

Let us know if this works or not.
#20
Linux / Disappearing Action Search sho...
Last post by Lynn - February 13, 2026, 02:59:42 AM
I don't know how I did this, but somehow today the action search shortcut had vanished from my earlier versions of Scribus. For reasons (need to update linux mint) I have 1.5.8 installed but also have 1.6.4 and 1.7.2 as appimages. I've been alternating between them to test the new user interface.

What is confusing is that I don't think I can have accidentally deleted the action search shortcut myself, since it's not available in the Preferences > Keyboard Shortcut window at all. I'd meant to file a bug report that you can't customize the shortcut for that command since it doesn't appear in the list.

I managed to locate the Scribus150.rc document with the user profile and sure enough there's a line that says:
 <Shortcut KeySequence="" Action="helpActionSearch"/>

Where in the Scribus170.rc it says:
 <Shortcut KeySequence="Ctrl+/" Action="helpActionSearch"/>

I'd noticed a bunch of my other keyboard shortcuts I always use had disappeared as well, but I'd assumed maybe I'd erased them myself by accident. Presumably I can edit the line in the rc file to get my action search shortcut back but I'm baffled how it disappeared in the first place.