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#11
Beginner Talk / Re: Workflow for adding image ...
Last post by marce colina - September 07, 2025, 02:55:40 AM
Hi! Nice reading. Im actually testing Scribus. Quite good. The issue with wrap around transparency is not so easy as in other programs. But with the help of Gimp i found easy to create svgs with the contour information. In gimp just select all the transparent areas, then invert the selection, then on paths docker, right click, selection to path, and then export it as svg. When you import it on Scribus, it will give you the exact contour of your transparent png
#12
MacOS / Re: Newbie - images keep movin...
Last post by utnik - September 06, 2025, 10:37:37 PM
hi kp

Quote from: KP on September 06, 2025, 03:32:44 PM...It seems very unpredictable and really twitchy - both in terms of remembering adjustments & property choices and also scrolling / clicking.
Is this normal for Scribus?
...
i never had an issue with scribus's remebering of my choices and adjustments in almost twenty years of using the software.
i rather suspect you not to remember a click... (i'm sorry, but it is as it is...)

utnik
#13
MacOS / Re: Newbie - images keep movin...
Last post by KP - September 06, 2025, 03:32:44 PM
Thanks all.
Clicking 'free scaling' in 'image properties' has helped, thanks utnik. But it's unpredictable - quite often Scribus forgets I've clicked 'free scaling' for an image. I have to check every image before closing the file.
It seems very unpredictable and really twitchy - both in terms of remembering adjustments & property choices and also scrolling / clicking.
Is this normal for Scribus?
Thanks
#14
General Discussion / Re: June - August 2025
Last post by a.l.e - September 06, 2025, 10:57:46 AM
It already happened in September:

  • ...

Open tickets with pending patches:


Tickets with "simple" tasks:

Scripts to be created
#15
General Discussion / June - August 2025
Last post by a.l.e - September 06, 2025, 10:51:51 AM
The (European) Summer 2025 was a low activity trimester for Scribus:

  • New scripter functions: setImagePreviewResolution() and getImagePreviewResolution().
  • Apply paragraph and character styles with the keyboard with shift-Esc (in a similar way as with the "Action search"):
    apply-style-does-work.gif
  • Some more improvement in the naming of the items and attributes in the .sla file format.
  • Add support for newer version for Poppler and and PoDoFo.

... and many smaller fixes and improvements...
#16
MacOS / Re: Newbie - images keep movin...
Last post by utnik - September 06, 2025, 06:56:25 AM
Quote from: AdmFubar on September 06, 2025, 04:48:42 AMProblem with that is the text will get lost on the image. He is limiting the frame shape and wanting the text to hug the shape frame...

ok. in this case he should click on 'free scaling' in the 'image properties' before editing the shape. otherwise scribus has to adapt the size to the new frame shape...

utnik
#17
MacOS / Re: Newbie - images keep movin...
Last post by AdmFubar - September 06, 2025, 04:48:42 AM
Quote from: utnik on September 05, 2025, 10:26:45 PMhi kp

You shouldn't edit the frame itself to manage the text flow. (at least not if the size of the image is set to fit the frame size...) You should edit the contour line (and use it for the text flow).
see this bug report and my comment...

utnik
Problem with that is the text will get lost on the image. He is limiting the frame shape and wanting the text to hug the shape frame.
Try this and see if it solves the issue for you. Draw a shape, a rectangle will work for this, edit it as you did for the image frame. Then convert the shape to image frame and add your image, and add text wrap to flow around the frame. save, exit scribus and reload and see if the size has changed

#18
MacOS / Re: Newbie - images keep movin...
Last post by utnik - September 05, 2025, 10:26:45 PM
hi kp

You shouldn't edit the frame itself to manage the text flow. (at least not if the size of the image is set to fit the frame size...) You should edit the contour line (and use it for the text flow).
see this bug report and my comment...

utnik
#19
MacOS / Re: Newbie - images keep movin...
Last post by RodneyLee - September 05, 2025, 02:44:22 PM
sounds like you are editing the images after you close Scribus, then reopening the file with the newly saved image, which makes it no longer fit in the frame you started with
#20
MacOS / Re: Newbie - images keep movin...
Last post by AdmFubar - September 04, 2025, 10:37:20 PM
Post an image here.. i want to try it.