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#51
Text and Typography / Re: my letters turn into dotte...
Last post by AdmFubar - March 24, 2026, 04:03:42 AM
It appears that outlining fonts is broken. A temporary solution is to convert that text to outline  Select the text, in the dropdown menu, select Item/Convert to/Outline.
Will produce the desired result when output as a PDF. This will at enable you to finish the project.

Hopefully the outline text option will be fixed shortly.
#52
Text and Typography / Re: my letters turn into dotte...
Last post by PN - March 23, 2026, 10:40:00 PM
Here is
#53
Text and Typography / Re: my letters turn into dotte...
Last post by utnik - March 23, 2026, 08:44:54 PM
hi pn

could you share the .sla file? (you may reduce the content to those three words...)

utnik
#54
Text and Typography / Re: my letters turn into dotte...
Last post by PN - March 23, 2026, 04:09:51 PM
Here are some screenshots
#55
Text and Typography / Re: my letters turn into dotte...
Last post by RodneyLee - March 23, 2026, 03:39:28 PM
can you upload a sample that does this?
#56
Text and Typography / [SOLVED] my letters turn into ...
Last post by PN - March 23, 2026, 03:10:55 PM
Hello,
When I export to PDF, the solid borders on my letters turn into dotted lines!
How can I prevent this?
Thank you
#57
MacOS / Re: Just Downloaded
Last post by utnik - March 20, 2026, 01:33:51 PM
hi jonr
Quote from: JonR on March 20, 2026, 09:09:03 AM...I have just found the "F3" text Properties button which sort of answers my question. These controls really should be available in the top menu bar.
just take a look at the 'windows' menu...

but i would recommend to use styles for the best part of the typography settings.

utnik
#58
MacOS / Just Downloaded
Last post by JonR - March 20, 2026, 09:09:03 AM
Just downloaded Scribus and on outset it looks great. However, so far as I can see the only way of doing any form of typography is by entering a separate window and updating there without seeing how it affects the layout in real time. On the main window there is no typography control whatsoever, no font choice, no sizing, no leading or tracking, nothing. Am I missing something,is there a button I should have checked at setup? Because Scribus looks great but this flaw totally kills the package for me.

I have just found the "F3" text Properties button which sort of answers my question. These controls really should be available in the top menu bar.
#59
Layout Issues / Internal references are gone a...
Last post by Flaxx - March 19, 2026, 10:02:59 PM
Hi there,

In order to share our work we are deviding a monthly newsletter in three parts and it's my part compiling it to a single sla before exporting the result. Mostly I need to rearrange the containing text frames (a bunch of small articles).

The main file contains usually a chess problem that finally should refer to another page showing the solution. It works perfectly when I'm placing the mark and the reference to it myself, but if I'm copying the related text frames from a file where it worked to my compilation (the same source file, BTW) no page number is shown anymore.

Okay, my solution is, separating the frame that should show the page reference and leave it away when copying the rest. Same with the solution page containing the text mark. It's just more work.

A can find the given name of this mark in the source sla, but it doesn't work.
Now I'm asking, is it a bug or a feature (I know, it's still experimental).

A related question that might lead to a feature request:
I didn't find a way finding out where marks and similar elements are placed, only that there should be something somewhere. I wish it would be possible making them visible like TABs, spaces, etc.
#60
Layout Issues / Re: Kening issues copying Libr...
Last post by Flaxx - March 19, 2026, 09:01:29 PM
Quote from: chimaera on February 10, 2026, 05:07:17 PMHello fellow designers!
I'm having a great time with Scribus, but tables have been the bane of my existence. When copying tables over from LibreCalc to Scribus, I'm getting errors with text kerning that's causing certain characters and combinations of characters to appear garbled, or not appear at all. I'm using Monserrat Medium for the font in both LibreCalc and Scribus.

I'd love to hear if anyone has had similar issues, and how you solved it. I'd like to keep using Scribus, but I'm early enough in my layout that I'm happy to use something else if I'm unable to fix this, as tables are essential for the book I'm designing.

Thanks for reading!

TLDR: copying LibreCalc table to Scribus results in kerning errors

I'm using a way circumventing such problems, but it might be too complicated:

First I'm exporting the table to PDF,First I'm exporting the table to pdf. Then I load the resulting PDF in Inkscape, mark and group the table I want and export it again as pdf (just the marked area).
Finally I import it in Scribus (no text, pure graphics - unfortunately Scribus still can't handle the text.). If necessary I treat the final export with OCR, keeping the pictured table perfectly readable as it is.