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#31
Linux / Re: Scribus 1.7.2 Imported Col...
Last post by utnik - March 02, 2026, 12:07:13 AM
if you press 'delete unused' in 'colors and fills' without an open file, you will end up with black, white and registration only. (you need to select a color before 'delete unused' is clickable...)

to solve the problem you need to select a palette (or create a custom one) – again without an open file. if you change the palette when a document is open, your fix will just be for this single file.

utnik
#32
Linux / Re: Scribus 1.7.2 Imported Col...
Last post by a.l.e - March 01, 2026, 08:45:02 PM
I did a small test and could not notice anything wrong.

Would you mind giving a bit more details?
  • How did you create the list of colors?
  • Would you mind sharing a list of colors that can be used to reproduce the issue?
  • What are the steps you are doing before you get to the three only colors?
#33
Linux / Re: Scribus 1.7.2 Imported Col...
Last post by AdmFubar - March 01, 2026, 08:40:24 PM
Scribus' new document loads a default template that has just the those few colors. The solution would be to create your default document with the color palette  you want, save and copy it to the default document, or!, make a new template and save it in the templates and load that instead.
#34
General Discussion / Re: Insert Pages... causes all...
Last post by AdmFubar - March 01, 2026, 08:36:26 PM
What is weird the poly is as wide as the scratch space.. however i noticed there doesn't seem to be any limit on the scratch space. You can set the scratch space for a document, but scribus doesnt seem to pay attention to it.
#35
Linux / Scribus 1.7.2 Imported Colors ...
Last post by Portreve - March 01, 2026, 07:09:25 PM
I've just noticed and did some further testing, but when I import my existing Scribus-generated list of colors, they are brought in, I press OK, they're there, but then when I create a new document, the colors are all missing. In fact, I wind up with three options for both text and object coloring: "none", "black", and "white".

Using the same data file, I am successful in importing these colors in 1.6.x.
#36
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!



#37
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.
#38
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
#39
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)
#40
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?