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#51
Text and Typography / Drop shadows causing lag
Last post by AlShamar - April 03, 2026, 12:35:42 AM
Hi I'm wondering if anyone can help.

I am in the process of creating a 100 page document and all of the text will need to have a drop shadow. I'm barely on page 3 and am already noticing the lag and the programme is getting sluggish and frustrating and it'll not doubt get worse when I start adding images and the pages i need fill.

Is there any way that I can either add more memory to the programme or find a way to stop the programme rendering the drop shadows so that I can complete the doc knowing the shadows are there even if i cant see them? Any help suggestions or hints would be greatly appreciated.
#52
Code / Add dev branch to FlatPak to k...
Last post by sudbg - April 02, 2026, 12:53:32 AM
I love nightlies, specifically with the great Scribus; currently, if a new release happens, I have to download it manually from SourceForge and then install it with Flatpak. It would be much easier to add the development branch to Flatpak and give the user a choice of which branch to install.

Could be added the same way as GIMP nightly, i.e., into GNOME's official nightly Flatpak repository.
 
#53
Beginner Talk / Can Text Frame resize based on...
Last post by IanicM - March 30, 2026, 04:09:41 PM
I have a simple text frame, and I would like it to automatically resize, either vertically or horizontally, based on its content.

I've found options that adjust the spacing between the text and the frame, but I haven't found any way to make the frame itself expand automatically.

Is there such an option? If not, is there a workaround to achieve this behavior?

Note : I tried the Item - Adjust - Adjust Frame Height to text, but this doesn't expend the Text frame to expose all the text, it only frame around current visible text.
#54
Showcase / Re: NGO report made with scrib...
Last post by Tibolu - March 29, 2026, 11:24:23 PM
Thank you @utnik for your honest feedback !

Quote from: Aleks100 on March 27, 2026, 07:42:25 PMWhy no hyphenation?
Just like utnik wrote, I tend not to use it unless I justify my text.
#55
General Discussion / Re: SCRIBUS ON A MACBOOK NEO
Last post by MrB - March 29, 2026, 09:59:43 PM
Download the Mac version I produce from our download links and see. They are build for the Apple Silicon chips. Let me know if there is an issue - then someone can donate me a Neo if it fails :)
#56
General Discussion / Re: SCRIBUS ON A MACBOOK NEO
Last post by utnik - March 29, 2026, 12:41:06 PM
hi james

i used scribus on different macbooks since almost twenty years – not on a mb neo so far. but there is no reason why it shouldn't run on it...

utnik
#57
General Discussion / SCRIBUS ON A MACBOOK NEO
Last post by James Glover - March 29, 2026, 08:32:20 AM
I'm considering getting a MacBoook Neo for publishing with Scribus. My gut tells me there shouldn't be any problems, but I wanted to ask first. Has anyone installed it and encountered any issues with regards to editing, writing, and publishing docs?

Thanks,

James
#58
PDF Generation / Re: Embed / Subset problem.
Last post by avox - March 28, 2026, 11:44:39 PM
Does spectral regular work in the webbrowser when embedded in other PDFs?

When Scribus subsets a font it only generates the minimal needed parts of a font in a consistent manner. The original font might use features that are not supported in a webbrowser.
#59
Beginner Talk / Re: Character styles: make pro...
Last post by utnik - March 28, 2026, 08:35:03 PM
hi mountainman

afaik this is not possible. but it is an interesting feature. maybe you could request it here.

utnik
#60
Beginner Talk / Character styles: make propert...
Last post by Man Mountainman - March 28, 2026, 09:19:52 AM
Sorry for the confusing title, I don't really have the vocabulary to talk about this.

Anyway, I'm trying to learn Scribus (1.7.2). One thing I want to do is to define character styles that can be used across multiple paragraph styles.

So, for instance, I might have one paragraph style where I set the font size to 10pt:



And another one where I set it to 12 pt:



And then I have a character style that I want to be able to use in both the 10pt and the 12pt paragraph style.

And the idea would be that it changes (let's say) the font and the style, but NOT the size. So if I apply it to a word in a paragraph with the 10pt style, it stays 10pt. And if I apply it to the 12pt paragraph, it stays 12pt.

This does not seem to be possible. When you create a character style, you have to define all the properties.



In other words, it's not possible to leave a property (like size) "undefined", so that when the character style is applied to a word, the property (size) defaults to whatever value is defined by the paragraph style.

Have I understood correctly, or is there a way to achieve what I am trying to achieve?