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#81
General Discussion / Re: Will page imposition ever ...
Last post by domeksoftware - February 23, 2026, 02:51:59 AM
Looking for this my code https://github.com/deser1/Book
#82
General Discussion / Re: Insert Pages... causes all...
Last post by Riquez - February 22, 2026, 09:34:47 PM
Gnome49+ is Wayland only now. But from what I read XWayland is an automatic translator - I dont think I can choose it?
#83
General Discussion / Re: Insert Pages... causes all...
Last post by a.l.e - February 22, 2026, 12:54:31 PM
As far as I know, Wayland is still not really supported.

Some things work, others don't.

If I recall correctly, you need to start Scribus with XWayland...
#84
General Discussion / Insert Pages... causes all pag...
Last post by Riquez - February 22, 2026, 11:04:25 AM
When I choose PAGE > Insert.. to add pages to my document (in any configuration, eg: 1 page at end)
The entire work area goes black & no pages are visible.

I can see the new pages in the Arrange Pages tab, but I cant click on them & see the pages. All pages are vanished from main view. No work is possible.
I can save the document, close the app, re-open & the new pages will be there.

Ive tested this on .appImage 1.7.2 & my distros package install 1.6.5

System info:
Scribus version: 1.6.5 & 1.7.2
Distro: Manjaro 26 Gnome 49 (arch based)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 4500U
GPU: Radeon Graphics
Display: Wayland

#85
Beginner Talk / Re: Single Line Drop Caps
Last post by rvodden - February 21, 2026, 08:37:54 PM
That was exactly it @utnik - when I changed the font size of the dropcap style to be the same as the font size of the rest of the text it worked perfectly. Thanks!
#86
Beginner Talk / Re: Single Line Drop Caps
Last post by utnik - February 20, 2026, 08:49:51 PM
hi rvodden

try to reduce the font size of the style for the drop caps to something below the value of the baseline grid.

utnik
#87
Beginner Talk / Re: Single Line Drop Caps
Last post by AdmFubar - February 20, 2026, 08:13:54 PM
Looks like an issue with the font. I noticed that you are using different fonts in your examples. Try a different one for the problematic drop cap and see if that clears it up.
#88
Beginner Talk / [SOLVED] Single Line Drop Caps
Last post by rvodden - February 20, 2026, 05:51:27 PM
I'm having a strange problem with DropCaps. I have a 2 line dropcap selected, and the drop cap has appeared 3 lines deep with only a single line following it:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Cj9ZPhGygOEC_ZD_kKtwJCuRaTQjqiT5

In other places it works fine though:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xuTT1fQSm81CfSbT9SUu65L2JiDk-fcB

Does anyone have any idea what is going?
#90
Scripts and Plugins / Re: Utility script for book ty...
Last post by Lynn - February 17, 2026, 10:59:51 PM
Oh, honestly, I hadn't imagined Scribus would implement any of this natively; at least certainly not any time soon. For one thing, typesetting norms vary by language/region/medium and I have no idea whether these rules are applicable outside english-language book typesetting. I don't get the impression many people use Scribus for books, though I think it can work very well for it.

Out of the list, the only one I think is likely universal is preventing the last word of a paragraph from being automatically hyphenated. Perhaps it'd be possible to have a "don't hyphenate within X lines of the end of a paragraph"? Both Affinity and InDesign have toggles for this in their hyphenation settings.

But I know there's certainly bigger Scribus priorities, hence writing a script to automate that task in my projects. (I would definitely rank these fiddly bits way below style-based running headers.)

The initial reason I wrote my script to work with the XML instead of within Scribus directly is that I didn't see a method in the API to edit text that isn't visible on a page in Scribus. When doing book projects, I add pages in chunks as I finalize the text and unlink the text chain at each chapter break. That prevents ever having a really long text chain visible on-screen, and reduces lag when doing 200+ page projects. If I could only edit visible pages, I would have to remember to run the script four or six times per project rather than all at once at the beginning.