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#81
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...
#82
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
#83
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
#84
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.
#85
Windows / Re: Issue with Scribus Color &...
Last post by Nermander - October 19, 2025, 07:25:56 AM
As 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.
#86
Windows / Issue with Scribus Color & Eff...
Last post by akhilvtk - October 19, 2025, 06:29:15 AM
Hi everyone, I have two systems: a desktop and an HP laptop and both have Windows 11, 25H2. I've noticed an issue with Scribus under the Color & Effects menu. On my laptop, the dropdown menu only shows three colors, whereas on my desktop, there are significantly more options available.

I've attached a screenshot for reference. Could anyone help me understand why this discrepancy exists and how I can resolve it on my laptop?

Thanks in advance!
#87
Beginner Talk / Text distances in Style editor
Last post by LeXa - October 19, 2025, 04:27:53 AM
Hello,
Discovering Scribus, I'm working on a photography calendar.

I'm using the calendar wizard script to generate pages, so each 'day box' is a text frame. Associated with a style. Very powerful to change style on the whole document.
I'm trying to apply a margin on the number of the day in the top left but with a margin as the example below.

https://pasteboard.co/kgQFqAYvwYyH.png

But I can't find this option, 'Text distances', in the style editor. I don't want to have to replicate that on each  (many) Text frame...

Someone know how to proceed or a workaround ?

Cheers,

#88
User Interface / Re: Issues with the v1.7.1.svn...
Last post by AdmFubar - October 19, 2025, 12:16:43 AM
can you use a flatpack, appimage, or snap version?
#89
Linux / Re: Book creation with scribus
Last post by a.l.e - October 18, 2025, 08:55:25 PM
Interesting project!

First (a short one): In Scribus, the table are bad. Not sure you really want to support them in your framework.

Second (something slightly longer):

Currently, none of the actions typical for the text frames are available for the content of table cells.

As far as I can tell, the cells cannot be accessed by a name, and I'm not sure that it would be a good idea to implement that.

Also, I've tested setTextColor() and it refuses to apply when the selection is a table cell.

But there might be a simple way out:

  • Add a Scripter function to select a cell by it's "coordinates" (row and column).
  • Tweak all the text related to accept also table cells as targets.

I've created a ticket for this:
https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=17655

No promise it will be added soon, but it might be an easy task.

Third:

I did not download the script, just had a look at the screenshots and documentation and it looks like an interesting work!

I will try to find some time for a deeper review and for trying it out...

Just one first thing: since you call it a prototype, you might rather target Scribus 1.7 instead of 1.6... 
#90
Showcase / Re: Our New Comic 175 pages St...
Last post by a.l.e - October 18, 2025, 08:14:20 PM
Sadly, the one with the frame break and the formatting is a known issue:

https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=16523

... I'm not sure it's something I know how to fix...