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#51
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
#52
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
#53
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 :-)
#54
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.
#55
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.
#56
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.
#57
Showcase / Re: Our New Comic 175 pages St...
Last post by utnik - October 23, 2025, 04:58:33 PM
as long as your settings for margins, bleeds and the whole content of the master pages is symmetrical, it doesn't matter if you apply a left or a right master page to an actual document page. scribus will export a perfect .pdf file anyway. (just check for the placement of all master page items!)

utnik
#58
Showcase / Re: Our New Comic 175 pages St...
Last post by Solara Maris - October 23, 2025, 02:23:26 PM
Actually you can set the left/right master page type but once set it cannot be edited
https://imgur.com/rX6DqNL.png
#59
Showcase / Czech book with model railroad...
Last post by prcek - October 23, 2025, 01:19:51 PM
It's time to show off.

I'm not the author of text and pictures. I've just put it together.

As a Scribus beginer I managed to create a book!
I want to thank to all developers and people who helped me here or created documentation, video tutorials etc. somewhere on the Internet. I want to thank to people asking questions here as well, because due to it many of my questions were already answered.

It is not the most complex book design, but it has been printed and almost is sold out.
All the software used for this book is FOSS. Scribus, GIMP, Libre Office, python, git and other tools running on Linux, as well as freely available fonts. It helped us keeping the price of book in reasonable limits.

Of course I've noticed some mistakes as soon as I've laid hands on physical book but still... It is awesome that a few months of my (and others) free time have materialized.
#60
Showcase / Re: Our New Comic 175 pages St...
Last post by a.l.e - October 23, 2025, 11:09:43 AM
Many moons ago, I was part of a project


that did produce an experimental art book.

I'll let page 101 explain you the issue:

ResizedImage_2025-10-23_11-14-01_1.jpg

"Indeed, you can apply a right master page to a left page".

As you see now, the Preflight verifier will complain, but you can do it and Scribus does not help you not to do it : - )

P.S.: I guess that you defined your L master page as right page and the R one as a left one...