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#71
Beginner Talk / Re: changing margins
Last post by AdmFubar - June 02, 2025, 08:55:53 PM
change the master pages margins and reapply, that should work in theory. you might use a few less pages this way too, check the end and see if there are any blank pages.
#72
Beginner Talk / Re: tekenstijlen in lettertype...
Last post by AdmFubar - June 02, 2025, 08:53:01 PM
we will need a little more information. How about posting a style panel before and after so we can see what settings are changed or not.
#73
Beginner Talk / changing margins
Last post by occamsrazor - June 02, 2025, 07:35:20 PM
I have a 262-page book made on Scribus (1.6.4) with different left and right page margins for printing, but I would now need margins suitable for an e-book, meaning they should be symmetrical, so that the text doesn't shift sideways during scrolling in a fixed layout like pdf.

The tex frames should be otherwise identical, so the e-book looks identical to the print version.

Is there a way to avoid doing it all again from scratch?
#74
Beginner Talk / tekenstijlen in lettertypen
Last post by cb - June 02, 2025, 11:09:15 AM
I just started to explore Scribus and created some styles. When I click apply, all changes in a style take effect except the letter font and letter size.
What am I doing wrong?
#75
PDF Generation / Re: Accessible PDFs
Last post by OSDP - June 01, 2025, 01:28:28 PM
That work well !
Export your Scribus .pdf (without protection) or image raster with text, and use a convert .pdf/A online tool.
For exemple, this one. Here if you start from a .pdf with hyperlinks, he saved all hyperlinks with by default .PDF/A-3B.
Then, you can download it and verify it here (if it is well .pdf/A validated).
#76
PDF Generation / Re: Accessible PDFs
Last post by OSDP - June 01, 2025, 12:16:54 PM
In this link, we can read :

"Image-only PDFs. If the PDF is a scanned document, each page is treated like one big picture. Running OCR (Optical Character Recognition) converts scanned text to searchable/taggable/readable text, which makes the document accessible."

So an alternative would be to provide each page as an image? (.png .webp .jpg)?
#77
PDF Generation / Re: Font issues with Blurb and...
Last post by OSDP - June 01, 2025, 11:57:18 AM
Quote from: a.l.e on February 23, 2025, 08:27:19 PMBut at the end, it boils down do the fact that RIPs (the thing that converts PDFs into bitmaps that can be printed) and the printers (the thing that gets the bitmaps and put ink on paper) are really complex and fragile machines.

What happens if the text in the .pdf is converted to curves/outlines ?
What happens if the .pdf is prepared so that each page is converted to a bitmap image ? (.tiff or .jpg)
#78
General Discussion / Re: Libre Graphics Meeting 202...
Last post by a.l.e - May 31, 2025, 05:07:22 PM
Four brave Scribus people met in Nürnberg, had fun, good food, enjoyed several LGM talks, and... had long discussions!

The most concrete output is a set of "Metabugs" in the Scribus issue tracker: they should help us tracking what is needed (or desirable) for the release of next Stable release and what is left to do:

https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=17538

Of course it's not a final list, but the current main topics are:

- fonts management (some "minor" tweaks on how active fonts can be selected and how they are displayed in the drop down)
- Inital support for RTL documents (we already support RTL text, but we would like to gradually make it possible to create RTL documents, starting by being able to set RTL as the default mode in the text frames!)
- A few improvements to the Scripter (the main one being a tentative to make the scripter console dockable)
- Improvements to the .sla file format for Scribus 1.8 (giving better names to the attributes)
- UI fixes (mainly, finishing the transition to the new palettes and the final polish to the node editor)
- Various features and bug fixes (a bin for more random tasks, that we would like to see in)  (and tasks we are anyways working on).

Everybody is welcome to help Scribus reach those goals!
(And if you think we have missed something, please raise your hands!)

And, no, this does not mean that a release of Scribus will happen soon. But having such a list might help having the release a bit sooner...

We did also let our mind wander a bit more freely and forged possible goals for the release after the next one... But this is a topic for a future post...
#79
Beginner Talk / Re: Trying to Create a Diploma...
Last post by sersha - May 30, 2025, 07:20:34 AM
Here is a link to the nice explanation of TextOnThePath.
https://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/How_to_put_Text_on_a_Path
I also enclose a supersimple .sla file demonstrating that. Best regards, S.
#80
Layout Issues / Re: Creating a Hebrew Book La...
Last post by a.l.e - May 30, 2025, 07:20:29 AM
Sadly, those feature are not in Scribus yet.

But I'd really like to see them soon...