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#51
Text and Typography / Re: Another text formatting qu...
Last post by AdmFubar - November 30, 2025, 03:34:23 AM
most likely the text has an extra return in it hence the blank line.
From the drop down menu select  View/Text Frames and see if Show Control Character is checked, if not select it. back to the text frame. is there a blank line? with just a line break symbol?
#52
Beginner Talk / Re: Final line in text frame n...
Last post by arthropod - November 30, 2025, 02:19:14 AM
Update: it's still happening.

I tried a different font, as stated before, and that temporarily seemed to fix the issue. However, about 80 pages in, it started happening again.

The work I've already done has not changed, thankfully. But the issue is now appearing in any NEW pages I add. Which means I can't finish the project. This is incredibly frustrating. I have not changed my process, or the previously-functional font, which is making me loop back around to the idea of this being a bug.

I just wanted to update this thread in case anyone else is having the same problem and changing the font doesn't work for them either.
#53
Text and Typography / Another text formatting questi...
Last post by Sheba2 - November 29, 2025, 07:29:16 PM
This is a bit perplexing and, since a picture is worth a thousand words, I'm attaching a screen shot. Now, I made NO spacing changes (to my knowledge) to the text. You will notice the spacing between the two paragraphs at the top (which is actually what I want) and the "spacing" (or lack of) between the two paragraphs below. I searched the options and none made sense to me to fix it. Any clues to how to fix it or why it appears different between top and bottom. By way of more info, the entire document has the lower (no) spacing between paragraphs. I use Scribus 1.6.4 on a MacBook.
#54
Showcase / Re: Importing text only but wi...
Last post by Aleks100 - November 29, 2025, 12:59:37 PM
Have you tried to export text as markdown, check it if everything is fine (delete # headers), and then to import it in Scribus?
#55
Showcase / Re: Importing text only but wi...
Last post by a.l.e - November 29, 2025, 08:52:27 AM
If I understand you correctly, this has been discussed recently in this thread:

Importing LO Writer text without over-writing existing styles
https://forums.scribus.net/index.php/topic,6642.msg27393.html

Last Thursday, with the help of a few people at our local Hackergarten, I had a second look at the ODT importer and managed to find one of the switches that would allow to import the text and apply the formatting from the Scribus document.

But there is a lot more work to be done.
We will see, if I succeed.
#56
General Discussion / Re: Do you use cloud storage s...
Last post by AmyD3 - November 29, 2025, 07:47:38 AM
That's a really interesting point about the "third party doctrine" regarding cloud storage! It definitely makes you think about who really "owns" the files.
#57
Showcase / Importing text only but with a...
Last post by Denis ROUQUIER - November 28, 2025, 06:19:01 PM
Hello

I am currently preparing the second Scribus-based issue of our journal (the first went fine).
Everything is about OK ; I still feel a bit uneasy with text import.

I have tried several methods :
- copy-paste
- import (text only)
- import not-text-only

I have seen several problems :
- « Ctrl-space » characters become ordinary space characters   (typical of copy-paste from word) ;
- missing space characters here and there (from word, random, difficult to reproduce) ;
- local changes (like one word in bold or one sentence in italic) are not reproduced ;
  this is normal with copy-paste or with text-import-text-only, but it is a problem for me ;
- several new styles created (but not used ??) ; this is normal with « import text not-text-only »
  but I really want to keep the list of styles under control.

I wish Sribus could offer a text import function with the following features :
- no new style is created
- no existing style is modified
- the imported text appears in « default paragraph style »
- the local changes (like one word in bold or one sentence in italic) are reproduced.

The nearest I can go to this is by using the following method :
- start with a writer text (or with a writer version of a word text) ;
- use import text (not text only ; not prefix style names ...) ;
- click once in the frame and apply « default paragraph style » without bracket
- delete the newly created styles (this may be shared between several imports).

All this seems a bit complex, and I might have to use the old method (import text only, and carefully read the imported text to manually reproduce the local changes, like one word in bold or one sentence in italic).


#58
PDF Generation / Re: pdf too big
Last post by utnik - November 25, 2025, 12:44:49 PM
i would rather send a more usual test document with an end format (.pdf trim box) of 210x155mm and 3mm bleeds (bleed box: 216x161mm). i guess, that's what the printer really wants.

utnik
#59
PDF Generation / Re: pdf too big
Last post by a.l.e - November 25, 2025, 07:08:07 AM
That's a bit unusual, but what speaks against having pages 6 mm smaler than that and a bleed of 3 mm?

I would do a test document and send it to the printer, to check that you got it right.

P.S.: after reading utnik's comment: of course, if you have not sent a "normal" test document with the expected size + the bleeds around it, you should first send that! From your replies, I assumed you already did that, but I cannot be sure : - )
#60
PDF Generation / Re: pdf too big
Last post by Eric van Dusseldorp - November 25, 2025, 03:22:33 AM
Quote from: Eric van Dusseldorp on November 22, 2025, 05:53:22 AMHi, I made a book with Scribus. It is oblong 210x155 mm. By making a pdf, the system makes a far bigger format. I want exactly 210x155 and no crop marks.What to do?

Thank for the answers.
But the printer wants:
pdf in exactly the right format (210x155)
No crop marks but... Bleeding 3 mm.
How to do that?