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#51
Scripts and Plugins / Re: LibreOffice > InDesign (ID...
Last post by a.l.e - October 28, 2025, 07:26:09 PM
Hi Michael,

Thank you for considering Scribus!

Currently, Scribus can import both ODT and IDML files.

Export is currently only to PDF, an initial support for EPUB is in the working and should be making some bigger progress before the end of the year.

Now, what is the work that should be done in Scribus for supporting Resource Description Framework?
On what kind of import or export would you want to see improvements?
Do you have any specifications that Lásló Németh wrote for his project in Libre Office?

Have a wonderful evening
a.l.e
#52
Scripts and Plugins / LibreOffice > InDesign (IDML)
Last post by Michael Mueller - October 28, 2025, 03:39:39 PM
Hello,
Allow me to briefly introduce myself – I am Michael Müller, a German travel book publisher and author. My titles, published by my eponymous publishing house, enjoy a high reputation in German-speaking countries. For several years now, we have also been developing the travel guide app mmtravel (iOS/Android).
In order to build such an app with e-books, it is necessary to store the texts with semantic information.
To do this, we worked with LibreOffice developer Lásló Németh to make the Resource Description Framework usable in LibreOffice.
For a systematic workflow for print and app production, I am looking for a way to use these RDF-enriched LO files in InDesign for print output, with an equally powerful export function so that authors can use the latest production status for a new edition.
For Scribus, there is a LibreOffice import filter developed by Petr Vaněk. Perhaps there is a former developer who can help us estimate the development effort required?
In the case of InDesign and LibreOffice, the format to be supported would be IDML.

Michael Müller
#53
User Interface / Re: Issues with the v1.7.1.svn...
Last post by amair - October 28, 2025, 08:20:36 AM
Quote from: nitramr on October 27, 2025, 09:38:37 PMPlease, can you tell me which OS theme you are using?

It's Linux KDE/Plasma 6.4 with Breeze.

BTW: Why don't I receive email notifications if someone posts here? I've enabled them ...
#54
User Interface / Re: Issues with the v1.7.1.svn...
Last post by joseb - October 28, 2025, 12:18:51 AM
Quote from: nitramr on October 27, 2025, 09:38:37 PMPlease, can you tell me which OS theme you are using?

I am using:
- Windows 11
- scribus-1.7.1.svn-snapshot-20251002-x64.exe

All themes (fusion, windows, etc.) result in a pop-up window that has no border or shadow.

I have attached screenshots for the light and dark themes.




#55
User Interface / Re: Issues with the v1.7.1.svn...
Last post by nitramr - October 27, 2025, 09:38:37 PM
Please, can you tell me which OS theme you are using? Seems like the theme doesn't use a window shadow or something similar. The color picker is a frameless window.

Just a hint, the color picker container is a custom window class called "FloatingWindow". You could try to use it as a selector.

There are two window flags used: Qt::Tool and Qt::FramelessWindowHint
#56
Scripts and Plugins / Re: Python script API: How to ...
Last post by a.l.e - October 27, 2025, 07:54:23 PM
You're welcome to review this patch : - )

https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=17490
#57
Scripts and Plugins / Re: Python script API: How to ...
Last post by prcek - October 27, 2025, 07:36:36 PM
Hit this behaviour almost 3 years later. 1.6.4
Workarounded it by getting all group items, destroying group, getting text from text frames (no modification needed in my case) and creating group again.
I understand that modifying (i.e. resize) a grouped item can be tricky as it can change bounding box of the group and have some other side effects, but having to ungroup objects just to read the text is not much friendly.

Btw. I just wanted to search a text in the whole document :-)
#58
Showcase / Re: Our New Comic 175 pages St...
Last post by Solara Maris - October 27, 2025, 12:58:41 PM
Hello, it sounds good to me. I can redo the master or disable the warning. Either works well for me.

We are currently testing Scribus 1.7 in production and we are willing to report several issues. We managed to cause it crashing several times. How could we better proceeding reporting all these errors. Could you you suggest? Should we report them below this thread?

For example Find/Replace inside the Text Editor cause a crash for sure.
#59
User Interface / Re: Issues with the v1.7.1.svn...
Last post by joseb - October 27, 2025, 10:40:27 AM
Quote from: a.l.e on October 19, 2025, 05:44:23 PMThe new palettes are still a work in progress.
The library Scribus is using for them, might even get replaced "soon"...

Hello everyone,

Regarding the pop-up or drop-down colour fill palette... It is true that it is impossible to distinguish the outline of that drop-down.

Is there a standard QT class for customising the background colour or border colour?

Can this colour palette be modified using another QT 'class' specific to Scribus?


In another thread, I mentioned that I am trying to modify the interface using a .QSS style sheet. But in this case (and for other elements of Scribus), it is impossible for me to customise the colours of the interface.

I've tested extensive QSS selectors without success:
  • QComboBox::drop-down, QComboBox QAbstractItemView
  • QFrame, QListWidget, QTableWidget
  • QDockWidget
  • QWidget[windowType="Popup"]
  • etc.

For example, you can change the background colour and border of the internal colour list. I have attached a screenshot of the 'colour list' with a blue background so that it is easy to see.



However, it is impossible to change the background/border of the general pop-up colour fill palette (marked with a green line in another screenshot).



Thank you very much and congratulations on your work. With the latest versions of Scribus 1.7.1svn, it is now possible to work almost normally.
#60
Showcase / Re: Our New Comic 175 pages St...
Last post by a.l.e - October 23, 2025, 05:29:18 PM
Luckily, you can disable the warning:

preflight.png

I'm not sure if Scribus should allow to change the leftness / rightness of a Master Page.
I think I would prefer Scribus to always define facing master pages as pairs that are shown as such on the desktop and managed as such.

It's probably not very hard to do (up to the backward compatibility...), but it's a part of code I've never touched... and I fear it a bit.