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#81
Text and Typography / Re: Scribus rejecting some ins...
Last post by garydale - August 18, 2025, 07:04:57 PM
Had an idea - start with a blank document and import the one with the problem. It didn't work. I still got the font substitutions being done and the new document ended up looking worse than the original.  :(

I tried to create a new document to confirm a suspicion I had. It has nothing to do with the particular document. Scribus simply isn't seeing those fonts. I can't select the font for text in a new document.

LibreOffice writer and other programs do see them. What is Scribus doing differently?
#82
Beginner Talk / Re: Bullet and numbering issue
Last post by a.l.e - August 18, 2025, 05:18:46 PM
Yes, I'm slowly working on the ePub export plugin.
you can't download it yet, but it might get ready during next fall (that's the plan, at least).

For a real workflow, I would expand on Nermander's suggestion: start with common input files and create the ePub and the Scribus in parallel or one after the other.

If you really want to reuse files, it might be possible to import the .html files you feed into the .epub into Scribus.

It's not planned to make Scribus an ePub creator: the file you will be able to export will need formatting in an ePub editor.
So, even with the plugin, my suggestion for a good workflow won't change much : - )

Concerning the font, I can't read any Malayalam, but what I get in Scribus seems rather similar to what I see on the web page you have linked:

anjalioldlipi-scribus.png
#83
Beginner Talk / Re: Bullet and numbering issue
Last post by Nermander - August 18, 2025, 04:51:18 PM
I think the question refers to the ePub plugin mentioned in the original post. But it mentions .sil files and I have no idea what that is. Likely nothing Scribus uses.

I think the general recommendation from earlier discussions about ePub is that it is better to start with the ePub and import into Scribus to create a PDF for printing.

And as for the third question, my guess is that the font is not properly encoded. But I have not had a look at the font.

#84
General Discussion / Re: Scribus and PAC 2024
Last post by knee_boarder - August 18, 2025, 02:02:11 PM
Thank you for the really helpful replies :)

While I can remediate a document to pass the PAC 2024 accessibility checker, print is way off my area and I don't think I could explain the whys to the level you'd require, but I do agree with you about the importance of accessibility.
#85
Beginner Talk / Re: Bullet and numbering issue
Last post by a.l.e - August 18, 2025, 01:06:28 PM
No plugin needed.

As I wrote above, the best option for you is probably to create a paragraph style with the hanging indent and use that, with manual dash / bullet, correct tab stop, and a sane hanging indent.
#86
General Discussion / Re: Scribus and PAC 2024
Last post by a.l.e - August 18, 2025, 01:05:22 PM
On top of what Nermander wrote, Scribus is NOT a PDF editor.

Yes, it can open PDFs and it can export to PDF.
But it's not the right tool AT ALL for doing small changes to an existing PDF (with very few exceptions).

Since online PDFs are more and more important, it would not be a bad idea for Scribus to care about accessibility, but we need contributors who dive into it and tell us how we can implement it (IN DETAILS!), if possible without impacting the printing worfklow.
Contributing code is even more welcome.
#87
General Discussion / Re: Scribus and PAC 2024
Last post by Nermander - August 18, 2025, 11:49:24 AM
Scribus main goal has always been to be used for printing, making accessible PDFs is kind of the opposite of precise positioning of text, so I really doubt accessible PDFs is a prioritized area.
#88
General Discussion / Scribus and PAC 2024
Last post by knee_boarder - August 18, 2025, 11:30:29 AM
Hi,

As a complete newbie to Scribus, can Scribus be used to remediate PDFs to pass PAC 2024 please?

PAC 2024 https://pac.pdf-accessibility.org/en is a free PDF Accessibility Checker which is the industry standard for checking a PDF is accessible to users of assistive technology.

Kind regards,

Steve
#89
Beginner Talk / Re: Bullet and numbering issue
Last post by mgrajesh - August 18, 2025, 05:31:20 AM
can you help me to install the plugin? in mac? 
#90
Beginner Talk / Re: Bullet and numbering issue
Last post by mgrajesh - August 17, 2025, 11:14:34 AM
Quote from: Nermander on August 17, 2025, 08:22:40 AMThe best solution at the moment is to manually add a tab at the start of each line before applying the numbering. I tried it yesterday and it work well.

Or well, you can probably insert the tabs after applying the numbering too. But it has to be manually added (so for example for a ToC it may not be possible to do).

Unless there is a way to enter a tab as number suffix? I did try "^t" (tabs in MS Word) and "\t" but they did not seem to work, but I did not try to copy and paste from a tab entered in a text frame.

i think this will solve my first issue.. thankx  :D