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#21
General Discussion / Re: Insert Pages... causes all...
Last post by Riquez - March 01, 2026, 03:24:06 PM
Quote from: AdmFubar on February 28, 2026, 08:20:38 PMIt is the polygon that is causing the issue. I reloaded the page, selected the polygon from the outline window, deleted it and added pages. Pages inserted as they should.

Well done!! You've earned your detective badge for sure  8)
That fixes it for me too.

Actually when I double-clicked on the polygon in the outline window it froze scribus & I had to force quit.
But just removing it fixed the issue.

Thank you for your help. Very good to be aware of that for future ref.

I think that polygon accidentally got dragged too far - 12 billion pixels too far!



#22
General Discussion / Re: Insert Pages... causes all...
Last post by AdmFubar - February 28, 2026, 08:20:38 PM
Found them!  There is a weird zoom/scaling issue from inserting the pages.  Zoom out to around 5 to 6% you will seem them..

There is also a polygon as a free object in this document. However it cannot me seen. (see the outline window) This might be the source of the issue.

How old is the drive holding your document? it might have been caused by the disk going bad from age.
I need to inspect the .sla and see if there is anything that jumps out that would indicate a damage.

checked the file, compared it to one i created. It is the polygon that is causing the issue. I reloaded the page, selected the polygon from the outline window, deleted it and added pages. Pages inserted as they should.
#23
General Discussion / Re: Insert Pages... causes all...
Last post by Riquez - February 28, 2026, 04:53:03 PM
I discovered that this issue is not wayland, but something else in the document.
If i create a new document this issue doesnt manifest.

I thought perhaps it is a font or shape or something in the document.
i deleted all content from the document & removed all pages except, page one. the document still has this problem. But any new documents i create dont. How could this be?

This is the 1 page empty doc, but "Page > Insert" causes document area to go blank. It would be great if someone was willing to test this & see if it works on your version of Scribus.

https://drive.proton.me/urls/BE2BN5Z80M#ouDWpzJkPnUM
#24
Text and Typography / Re: Picking the ideal text imp...
Last post by Lynn - February 27, 2026, 12:31:19 AM
I did a little test on my lunch break and made you some sample documents using the book templates I have shared on github & the first four chapters of The Great Gatsby. I tested importing both the html and a markdown version run through https://pandoc.org/app/. I didn't customize the samples much, since this is just a demo.

HTML Notes:
  • Removing the bold from the headers is tedious
  • Because all headers have the bold substitution font applied, even if I lie to Scribus and tell it to use my regular body text font for the substitute, it still presents a problem for the ornamented breaks, which should be in a different font. I was able to use find/replace to override the manual font applied to the ornaments, but you always have to run it multiple times to catch all of them. It was easier to strip them in the XML file.
  • Other than that, the HTML import is very smooth

Markdown Notes:
  • No bold text was assigned to the headers so there were no issues on import on that front
  • Unfortunately, all paragraphs that weren't a header weren't assigned any paragraph style (not even the default one). I don't remember noticing this issue in my tests last week, but I tried it twice in different versions of Scribus (see attached markdown example). This led to the body paragraphs not using the right line spacing.

GreatGatsbyTemplate is the file with no text imported; GreatGatsbyFinal is a cleaned up version with styles applied. Markdown shows the way the default paragraph style wasn't applied to the body text using the markdown importer. I couldn't upload the HTML file as .html, so I renamed it into a .txt file.

(oh, almost forgot - the list of substitutions I use is on page 21 of this PDF: https://github.com/notwhelmedyet/ScribusTypesetting/blob/main/ReferenceDocs/AbridgedTutorial.pdf)
#25
Text and Typography / Re: Picking the ideal text imp...
Last post by a.l.e - February 26, 2026, 03:29:45 PM
Personally, the HTML workflow looks very sensible to me.

Sadly, it probably does not work as well as it should.

Would you mind creating a few sample HTML that are ready to be imported into Scribus and a .sla document with the state before starting importing them and one .sla showing how they should ideally be once the HTML files have been imported?
#26
General Discussion / Libre Graphics 2026 in Nurembe...
Last post by a.l.e - February 26, 2026, 03:00:07 PM
This year's LGM is getting closer, and it would be nice to see a few more Scribus people in Nuremberg.

I will be there for the full week, from Monday to Sunday.
First for a bit of tourism and then for the Talks and for meeting the wonderful users and developers from all over the world!

https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2026/
#27
Text and Typography / Picking the ideal text importe...
Last post by Lynn - February 24, 2026, 07:02:47 PM
My current process in Scribus is this:
  • I download the base text of the book as a html file
  • I use a script to apply html header styles to components of the text (chapter titles, chapter numbers, first paragraph of chapter, first paragraph of scene, scene break ornaments)
  • I set the substitution fonts for bold, italic and bold italic to my body text style
  • I import using the html importer & reassign all those header styles to the component styles for the book

There are downsides of working directly from html are as follows:
  • I have to keep a cheatsheet reminding me which header style maps to which document style
  • Headers are all set to the bold substitution font. The only way to avoid this is to lie to Scribus and tell it to substitute bold fonts with the regular body text font. If course, then you have to manually add any bold text back in. I swear when I started this workflow in 1.4.8 it didn't bold the headers, but now it does.
  • There are a maximum of 6 html header types. This is plenty for an html document but I've started to run out - work title, author name, chapter title, chapter number, chapter title decoration, paragraph start, scene start and scene break gets me to eight. In a work with epistolary sections like letters or text messages I might have even more sections I need to flag. I've had to drop off the work and author names.

I've considered the libreoffice importer, but that would bring in far more information than I want. I don't want to retain any formatting from the original except bold, italics and the marking where the paragraph styles are.

Markdown automatically imports the bold and italic text as character styles, but retains all my other issues with HTML and adds a pandoc conversion step.

Theoretically, the text filter importer would work perfectly to map my "header" styles to paragraph styles without adding excess bolds. But unfortunately there's no way to set character styles in the text filter importer. I suppose I could regex the XML after importing with another script.

Any suggestions on whether I'm missing the perfect importer for my purposes, or should I keep on with html for now?
#28
Layout Issues / Re: Pb merging multiple sla fi...
Last post by chalavi - February 24, 2026, 01:25:53 PM
The problem is still there with Scribus 1.6.3 and with 1.7.2. Impossible to merge 2 sla files with the import pages functions. Images are imported, small individual text areas are imported, but not text areas that run across many pages. So I'm going to use PDF Arranger to merge PDF ...

Chalavi  :(
#29
General Discussion / Re: Will page imposition ever ...
Last post by Lynn - February 23, 2026, 06:38:00 PM
Very interesting script! It's interesting what settings are needed in different fields.

I do home bookbinding & rely on a web-based external imposition software (generally https://github.com/momijizukamori/bookbinder-js or https://sithel.github.io/vip/) because being able to automatically adjust signature lengths of the folded sections (and include markup like sewing stations) to minimize blank pages at the end is very useful. I've never been bothered by Scribus not integrating imposition - in my hobby even people using InDesign/Affinity are going out to these separate imposers because the default settings aren't optimized for our usage.
#30
General Discussion / Re: Will page imposition ever ...
Last post by sersha - February 23, 2026, 08:28:33 AM
Nice script!
My immediate question, in the saddle stitch do you have an option to account for so-called creep? Each consequent page will physically shift by the thickness of paper towards outer edge when assembled. Then, if you cut that edge, the printed margin will also shift by the PaperThickness * NumberOfSheets. Would be nice to implement such a function, if not present.

There is a virtual printer named Boomaga, which is doing similar task, but yours seems to be a bit more advanced.