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#51
General Discussion / Re: TOC functionality in 1.7.x
Last post by Lynn - January 26, 2026, 11:21:56 PM
I haven't tested it in 1.7x, but I did write a script for applying character styles to elements of a TOC this weekend for my personal use. Might be helpful if anyone else is running into the issue of wanting differently style titles/page numbers in the interim - https://github.com/notwhelmedyet/ScribusTypesetting/blob/main/NicheScripts/styleTOC.py.
#52
Text and Typography / Re: Is it possible to remove c...
Last post by Lynn - January 26, 2026, 06:54:29 PM
Out of curiosity, I downloaded the appimage for 1.7.2 and I see this feature was indeed added on in the development branch! All the fields that are edited for the child style have a "revert" button available to swap them back to the default parent style setting.
#53
General Discussion / Re: TOC functionality in 1.7.x
Last post by theodorene37 - January 26, 2026, 04:39:58 AM
Separate character styles for TOC text and page numbers would make a lot of sense and avoid visual imbalance. Checking or opening a ticket sounds like the right next step if this isn't tracked yet.
#54
General Discussion / Site without a donation button
Last post by T.Roberto - January 25, 2026, 12:14:33 PM
Hi, I'm T.Roberto, a new member of the forum. I use Fedora, so I have all the open source apps. Every now and then I donate a little (a little, but a little goes a long way). I can't easily find how to donate on the Scribus.net site. I can't find any links or buttons. I'd like to suggest adding a dedicated section or button, like GIMP, Krita, etc. do. Thanks.
#55
Text and Typography / Re: Is it possible to remove c...
Last post by Nermander - January 25, 2026, 10:40:26 AM
I can't find a way to "reset" only one setting to the inherited one, but re-selecting what style it inherits from seems to reset everything to the inherited values.

I tried for example clearing out the field, but it went back to the previously manually set value.
#56
Text and Typography / Is it possible to remove child...
Last post by Lynn - January 24, 2026, 03:10:31 PM
I have some base "template" files I've made for book typesetting and I realized that at some point I went and manually set the font size for the "scene start" and "chapter start" styles, which really ought to be inheriting everything from the normal paragraph except it's indentation. I looked around and couldn't find anyway to un-customize them within the program.

Obviously I could re-associate them with the parent style (which would reset all the settings) and then set up the style again, but is there some other way within the program to tell Scribus "whoops, refer back to the parent style for this setting, ignore what I typed here?"

(What I'm actually doing to fix it is open the .sla files in notepad and remove the FONTSIZE="10.5" lines within the style description, but that's obviously a bit hacky)

(I use Scribus 1.5.8 usually, but I do have an appimage of 1.6.1 I use on occasion, if that makes a difference. I need to update Linux Mint so I can get a more recent scribus directly from the repo, been busy with other stuff)
#57
PDF Generation / Re: (En/Fr) Radio button: impo...
Last post by nenex-ordi-libre - January 19, 2026, 06:17:14 PM
Hi,

I just realized I didn't reply! I'm so sorry :-[ . I haven't worked on that file again, and it's no longer relevant. But now I'm making another one where I need radio buttons.

That was it! Thanks for your help, it's perfect.

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Salut

Je viens de voir que j'ai pas répondu  :-[  ! trop désolé. Je n'ai pas retravaillé sur le fichier concerné, qui en plus n'est plus d'actualité. Mais là j'en refais un autre ou j'ai justement besoin de boutons radio.

C'était juste ça ! Merci pour ton aide, c'est parfait.
#58
Features / Re: running headers with chapt...
Last post by Lynn - January 16, 2026, 01:28:32 AM
It's been a hot minute since you posted this, but I wanted to commit a bit of thread necromancy to say THANK YOU for this script.

I'm the local Scribus "expert" in my hand bookbinding club and for years I'd been telling people that making per-chapter headers (or per-work headers listing authors for anthologies) wasn't worth the effort in Scribus. This script makes that no longer true!

I enjoy building little run-time dialogue menus to set the variables for scripts like this, since usually the people I'm helping aren't comfortable opening python scripts and changing variables by hand. I built off the bones of this to make a (admittedly clunkier) variant that does everything I could think of for book headers:
  • Selecting a style of text within the document to copy into the headers, so you can pick if you want to move chapter titles, chapter number, work title, author name etc.
  • An option to delete previously created headers, which I used a great deal during debugging
  • Applying headers to either left or right pages, so you could put author names on the left and work titles on the right, etc.
  • Applying a style chosen at runtime to the headers, so you could use different styles for left and right headers.
  • Appending the new header text to text coming from the master page. I thought this was most plausible if someone wanted to include an ornament or page number nestled against the header contents. I've definitely seen book headers with the format "# | Chapter Title" before.
(In case you're curious, the script I edited is available here. https://github.com/notwhelmedyet/ScribusTypesetting/blob/main/runningHeadersScribus.py)

But yes, thank you! Your scripts have made the process of Scribus typesetting books much less tedious. :)
#59
PDF Generation / Re: Embed / Subset problem.
Last post by Riquez - January 14, 2026, 01:56:01 PM
OK. Thanks for that info. Its useful to know.

That makes sense for Calistoga & Dejavu because they are locked as subset & cannot be moved.

The problem font (spectral regular) is not in the subset list & can be freely moved to either column.

Ultimately it doesn't really matter because moving it to subset fixes the issue, I'm only really asking to understand the issue.
Perhaps its an odd glitch with just "spectral regular" - to be honest I havent noticed this issue ever before.

#60
Installation and Setup / Re: Corrupted Copy
Last post by utnik - January 13, 2026, 03:33:34 PM
hi sheba

ok. – i forgot that apple hides this 'library' by default.
here you'll find different ways to access it.

utnik