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#81
PDF Generation / Book cover design: Can I add f...
Last post by Anton - September 27, 2025, 09:49:02 AM
Hi everyone

I started using Scribus recently for book creation, and I find it, on the whole, to be a lovely program. After more or less completing the inside contents I have now started working on the cover and have run into a problem.

The printer wants fold marks placed in the slug area (please see the attached PDF for a graphical representation), but Scribus does not seem to have a function for this like InDesign does. In the latter program I would have been able to control the size of the slug area, create small lines and place them at the proper locations to create fold marks. Scribus does not seem to allow any objects outside the bleed area. You can of course place stuff there while working in the program, but it will not show up later in the exported PDF.

Is there a way to solve this? One option would perhaps be to expand the page size to have a larger white area around the book cover, thus creating an artificial slug area. I guess I would then have to draw fold marks and crop marks myself (crop marks would otherwise wind up at the edges of the page, which would be way off). But this seems like a very clunky way to go about it, and it certainly increases the risk for errors.

Is there a better way?
#82
Features / Re: Decimals and time in Scrib...
Last post by a.l.e - September 26, 2025, 05:46:51 PM
As far as I can tell, you should be able to get the same alignment with the pair of tabs (first the right one, then the left one) as you get with one tab stopping at a colon.

the hours will be right aligned and the minutes left aligned.
#83
Features / Re: Decimals and time in Scrib...
Last post by Flaxx - September 26, 2025, 03:21:05 PM
Quote from: a.l.e on September 25, 2025, 09:55:18 AMI would say that for times, the workaround would be to use a right tab for the colon and a left tab for the minutes:

It needs a bit of tweaking, it does not guarantee a perfect spacing, but it might be good enough...
That's exactly what I tried and you're right, it means fiddling each time again as the correct position changes depending on the leading numbers - not funny at all. Furthermore, it even doesn't look right for some numbers , specifically "4", >:( Even in best cases the causing gap is a bit too wide. In your example the left cursor edge would be the correct position for the "3", for my personal taste.

My solution: I started aligning the whole strings individually by using an aid line and the right cursor. It felt a bit less painful.

My main concern is that at the moment Scribus doesn't recognise the colon at all. It is not connected to any used language and is even an international standard, ISO 8601, based on the European EN 28601:1992. Just a strong recommendation, not binding at all. However, I believe it should be used not only in office applications.

I sincerely hope that your proposals can be realised in a way that those settings can be easily done. At the moment even selecting the right tab requires good eyes.

An additional feature request could be, offering in the tab's context menu the possibility, setting its exact value via the keyboard.
#84
General Discussion / Re: Unable to resize object pr...
Last post by a.l.e - September 25, 2025, 10:37:07 PM
Yep, Wayland is not yet properly supported (most of all for the properties windows!)

You need to start Scribus with the X11 emulation.
#85
General Discussion / Re: Unable to resize object pr...
Last post by prcek - September 25, 2025, 09:29:22 PM
Well, what version of Scribus are you using?

side note: Other apps (namely KiCad) have some issues with Wayland as well...
#86
General Discussion / Unable to resize object proper...
Last post by ete - September 25, 2025, 08:24:36 PM
If I select an object on a page and press either F2 or F3 a property dialog box opens. However in both cases I'm unable to resize the window. Also clicking on the windows control button does nothing.

I'm using Linux 6.16.4, Wayland Qt 6.9.1, KDE 6.3.6,
The graphic card is a Quadro RTX 4000

On the same computer on Windows 11 it works as expected
#87
Showcase / Re: Suite page n
Last post by Denis ROUQUIER - September 25, 2025, 01:14:22 PM
Thank you

I shall look at "marks / references "
#88
Beginner Talk / Re: Single Blank Page in PDF w...
Last post by a.l.e - September 25, 2025, 09:58:58 AM
Hard to say.

What you can do:

  • Save your document as "First page.sla"
  • Remove all pages but the first
  • Check that you can view the page in Scribus and it still does not export the content in the PDF
  • Upload the .sla here, without the images (you will publish it in the internets anyway...)
  • Let us check what is wrong there!
#89
Features / Re: Decimals and time in Scrib...
Last post by a.l.e - September 25, 2025, 09:55:18 AM
As far as I can tell, Scribus does not retain the language for the decimal tab, but has specific definitions for comma tabs and period tabs.

I would say that for times, the workaround would be to use a right tab for the colon and a left tab for the minutes:

left-right-tab.png

It needs a bit of tweaking, it does not guarantee a perfect spacing, but it might be good enough...

I wonder how Scribus could improve there.
Personally, I'm not convinced that using the language to define the stopping character is a good idea.
As an example, I have the feeling that in the language being used around me, both the dot and comma are used: it depends on the context (of course, a specific document will use one of both).

The best I could think of is:

  • Scribus should have only a decimal tab, not a period and a comma tab (migration: if the document is using decimal tabs, set the value to the one used; if both are used, set each tab individually)
  • The user can set the preferred stop char in the preferences
  • The user can override the preferred stop char in the document settings
  • For each tab definition, the user can override the stop char (it's a bit tricky to do in the main ruler, but I'm sure we can find a good solution!)

What do people think?
#90
Showcase / Re: Suite page n
Last post by a.l.e - September 25, 2025, 08:53:53 AM
No, this is not possible in an automated way.

The feature has been already requested, but we're not there yet.

Of course, you should be able to achieve that by using marks/references, but it's of course not the same level of comfort.