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#81
PDF Generation / Re: Book cover design: Can I a...
Last post by Anton - September 27, 2025, 05:39:24 PM
Ah, there we have it! Increasing the bleed allowed me to place lines there. Problem solved.

Being a newbie I'm obviously missing simple solutions.

Many thanks to both of you for taking the time and helping me.
#82
PDF Generation / Re: Book cover design: Can I a...
Last post by Aleks100 - September 27, 2025, 03:11:20 PM
Folding lines goes on bleed area not on design, duh.
If your bleed area is to small, make it bigger.
Everythig (folding lines, crop lines, cmyk marks and scales...) can be included above, or below design.
#83
PDF Generation / Re: Book cover design: Can I a...
Last post by Anton - September 27, 2025, 02:58:27 PM
Because lines are not supposed to show on the actual book cover. The dotted lines in the PDF I attached are only there to illustrate where the book is intended to be cropped and folded.

The goal is to have fold lines that are not dotted (ending where the bleed area begins).

Same principle for crop marks: we only want them to show until touching the bleed area, not continue as a dotted line on the actual book cover.
#84
Features / Re: Decimals and time in Scrib...
Last post by Flaxx - September 27, 2025, 01:55:43 PM
Quote from: a.l.e on September 26, 2025, 05:46:51 PMAs 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.
In general I can agree, However, I think (!!!) that I can see a difference width of the gaps before the colon and after. On the other hand I'm sure that most readers wouldn't see the same and almost everybody wouldn't care. ;D

Hey, the best would be if the devs could include the colon like it's done in office aps like LibreOffice Writer and really cool if your proposals how to handle such numbers would be realised.

Have a nice day.
#85
PDF Generation / Re: Book cover design: Can I a...
Last post by Aleks100 - September 27, 2025, 01:42:52 PM
You cannot draw fold lines yourself? Why?
There is a line tool in Sribus, draw a thin line, change type to dashed and that is it.
#86
PDF Generation / Re: Book cover design: Can I a...
Last post by Anton - September 27, 2025, 12:20:05 PM
The crop marks are not the issue here, Scribus creates them exactly as I want to. The issue is fold marks (marks that show the width of the binding area, where the book cover is to be folded). Did you have a look in the PDF file I attached? The fold marks can be seen on top and bottom at the middle of the page, marked with the letter "B". The problem is that I don't know how to add such marks in Scribus.
#87
PDF Generation / Re: Book cover design: Can I a...
Last post by a.l.e - September 27, 2025, 10:20:32 AM
If I understand you correctly, this is the result you need to achieve:

with-bleeds.png

(the two rectangle are at the size of the page and bleeds respectively)

If that's the one, I got it by:

Creating a document with 1 cm bleed
Activating the crop marks in the PDF export dialog and defining a 1 cm offset for the printer marks.

Edit:

Wait, no, you seem to just need normal crop marks:

with-bleeds.png

You don't seem to need any offset. Just a normal crop marks.

... Then you might get other issues, but having the crop marks outside of the bleed area does seems to be the default behavior in Scribus.
#88
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?
#89
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.
#90
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.