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#81
General Discussion / Autofill 2 pages
Last post by PastaShock - October 19, 2025, 09:55:43 PM
I have 2 pages with a 2 column spread on each page. I want the text to fill both pages.  I'm sitting here tweaking the line spacing, the character spacing and any other setting by hand. Is there some way for Scribus to "automagically" do this with a script and save me a lot of manual tweaking.
#82
User Interface / Re: Issues with the v1.7.1.svn...
Last post by AdmFubar - October 19, 2025, 09:40:26 PM
Quote from: amair on October 19, 2025, 04:16:53 PM
Quote from: AdmFubar on October 19, 2025, 12:16:43 AMcan you use a flatpack, appimage, or snap version?
What do you mean?
I don't use flatpack etc. and have no interests in doing so.
I didnt ask if you wanted to use flatpack, i asked if you can use them. There maybe a 1.6.x version in  that format. This may solve your problem. If  not then you will be stuck with that issue until a newer release will solve that issue.
#83
User Interface / Re: Issues with the v1.7.1.svn...
Last post by a.l.e - October 19, 2025, 05:44:23 PM
Concerning the left side: Never seen that...
I wonder where it could come from...

Concerning the right side: It could be better, but I'm pretty sure that you will manage to widen a bit the window, if it's really needed : - )

The new palettes are still a work in progress.
The library Scribus is using for them, might even get replaced "soon"...

At this point, I think it's worth checking, if the "nightly" Appimage from the Gitlab CI works better for you.

If you want to stick with 1.6, you can get the official Appimage.
It's much heavier than your self compiled builds, but it might just work.
#84
User Interface / Re: Issues with the v1.7.1.svn...
Last post by amair - October 19, 2025, 04:16:53 PM
Quote from: AdmFubar on October 19, 2025, 12:16:43 AMcan you use a flatpack, appimage, or snap version?
What do you mean?
I don't use flatpack etc. and have no interests in doing so.
#85
User Interface / Re: Issues with the v1.7.1.svn...
Last post by amair - October 19, 2025, 04:15:00 PM
Quote from: a.l.e on October 18, 2025, 06:19:10 PMWayland?

P.S.: If it's the case you might need to run Scribus with XWayland...
No, no wayland. It's x11.
#86
Windows / Re: Issue with Scribus Color &...
Last post by a.l.e - October 19, 2025, 09:42:50 AM
When all documents are closed, open "Edit > Colors and Fills".

You can then choose "Scribus Basic" for your future documents.

For the exiting documents where you're missing colors, just go to the same "Edit > Color and Fills" and merge in a Color set of your like.

But, in most case, after having playing around with Scribus you will probably want to define your custom colors. And, more often than not, they are specific to a project (so, you probably don't want to use a color set that is too big...).

P.S.: This time it was utnik the faster one : - )
#87
Beginner Talk / Re: Text distances in Style ed...
Last post by utnik - October 19, 2025, 09:09:34 AM
hi lexa

you're right. those options are missing in the 'style manager'.
but (as so often) with a hack you can do it anyway:
  • open the 'style manager'
  • select and open the style related to the numbers of the day
  • in 'properties' → 'tabs and indentation' you can define a right indent for your numbers
  • in 'character style' → 'advanced formatting' you can define a negative baseline offset.
hope that helps...

utnik

edit: while i was typing, ale gave a more advanced solution – you need to chose...
#88
Beginner Talk / Re: Text distances in Style ed...
Last post by a.l.e - October 19, 2025, 09:04:30 AM
Yes, we need frame styles!

As a workaround you can run this small script:

old_unit = scribus.getUnit()
scribus.setUnit(scribus.UNIT_MM)

TEXT_DISTANCE_LTRB = [0, 2, 1, 0] # mm

for page in range(1, scribus.pageCount() + 1):
  scribus.gotoPage(page)
  for item in scribus.getPageItems():
    if item[1] == 4 and scribus.getAllText(item[0]).isdigit():
      scribus.setTextDistances(*TEXT_DISTANCE_LTRB, item[0])

scribus.setUnit(old_unit)

Open your document, trigger "Script > Show console" and paste the script above in the upper part of the Script console.

The script will apply the distances defined in TEXT_DISTANCE_LTRB (left, top, right, bottom...) to each text frame in the document that only contains digits (in your case the frames with the dates)

There is no way to undo the changes, so if you're not happy with the result, you can run again the same script with different values or close the document without saving it.

P.S.: just tested: copy pasting from the snippet above seems to introduce unwanted characters. It might be safer to copy the script from https://github.com/aoloe/scribus-script-collection/blob/master/items-format/set-text-distance-in-calendar.py
#89
Windows / Re: Issue with Scribus Color &...
Last post by utnik - October 19, 2025, 08:50:08 AM
hi akhilvtk

scribus comes with a whole lot of predefined color sets. the one showed on your desktop pc is called 'scribus small'. it contains the basic colors of the rbg and cmyk world, white and 'registration'. (afaik this is the standard, when you install scribus...)
on your laptop you may have clicked on the button 'remove unused'...

to select your standard color set:
  • close any open file
  • go to 'edit' → 'colours and fills'
  • select one of the sets below 'current colour set' or edit it by adding new custom colors and/or deleting what you don't need...
  • if you have edited a set, save it under a custom name.

utnik
#90
Windows / Re: Issue with Scribus Color &...
Last post by akhilvtk - October 19, 2025, 07:51:34 AM
Quote from: Nermander on October 19, 2025, 07:25:56 AMAs far as I remember, Scribus does not have a default color set, the available colors are the colors that are defined in the document. There are pre-defined color sets you can import.

So my guess is that the two screenshots are from two different documents, not the same document on two different PCs.

These are blank document in two pc.