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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
grouped_items = scribus.getGroupItems( item_name, type=4 )
scribus.unGroupObjects( item_name )
for gi in grouped_items:
if gi[1] == 4:
try:
para_style = scribus.getParagraphStyle( gi[0] )
except scribus.NoValidObjectError:
print( f"Object not found: '{gi[0]}'" )
continue
if para_style != diary_style:
process_text_frame(gi[0])
... etc
grouped_items = scribus.getGroupItems( 'group name', type=4 )
for gi in grouped_items:
if gi[1] == 4:
try:
para_style = scribus.getParagraphStyle( gi[0] )
except scribus.NoValidObjectError:
print( f"Object not found: '{gi[0]}'" )
continue
print( f"Item '{gi[0]}' in group; style '{para_style}'" )