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#41
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 ?
#42
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.
#43
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?
#44
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.
#45
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
#46
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.
#47
Beginner Talk / Re: Remembering Image Location...
Last post by AdmFubar - July 14, 2026, 11:37:51 PMthese image folder, were they created manually? or did you do a collect for output for these two documents? if the former, then open the documents and do a collect for output "save". you will be prompted to create a save folder, i'm not sure if it will work with the current folders you have, but i dont think it should be an issue. the collect for output function will create a sub-folder for the images for that document. and scribus should reference the image directories separately for the respective documents.
let us know if this works for you.
let us know if this works for you.
#48
Beginner Talk / Remembering Image Locationa
Last post by guthpublication - July 14, 2026, 02:04:50 PMI have two unrelated projects, A.sla and B.sla.
Images for ProjectA are located in a folder called ImageA.
Images for ProjectB are located in a folder called ImageB.
If I open and work on A.sla, then open B.sla, I would like B.sla to remember that the images it uses are in the ImageB folder, not in the ImageA folder I was using for the other project. Changing the folder where I have an image seems to change the settings globally, not for an individual sla [similar issues also with where I print a PDF etc]
Images for ProjectA are located in a folder called ImageA.
Images for ProjectB are located in a folder called ImageB.
If I open and work on A.sla, then open B.sla, I would like B.sla to remember that the images it uses are in the ImageB folder, not in the ImageA folder I was using for the other project. Changing the folder where I have an image seems to change the settings globally, not for an individual sla [similar issues also with where I print a PDF etc]
#49
Linux / Re: Scribus 1.7.3 crashes due ...
Last post by MrB - July 09, 2026, 10:02:16 PMI think I have fixed this in 1.6.7.svn/1.7.4.svn
#50
Linux / Scribus 1.7.3 crashes due to S...
Last post by SilverGreen93 - July 09, 2026, 08:33:24 PMHi,
I am running Manjaro Linux with KDE Plasma and zsh shell.
I get this error when launching Scribus 1.7.3 after compiling it:
I am running Manjaro Linux with KDE Plasma and zsh shell.
I get this error when launching Scribus 1.7.3 after compiling it:
Code Select
❯ scribus
scribus: magick/error.c:1049: ThrowLoggedException: Assertion `exception->signature == MagickSignature' failed.
Scribus Crash
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Scribus crashes due to Signal #6
Calling Emergency Save
zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped) scribus