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#81
PDF Generation / Re: Book cover design: Can I a...
Last post by Nermander - September 28, 2025, 11:36:50 AM
It would probably be nice if there was an option (set up similar to guides) for adding other marks than crop marks outside the bleed area.

It would be useful also in cases where you have pages with a fold-out part in your design.
#82
General Discussion / Re: Removing all borders from ...
Last post by utnik - September 28, 2025, 09:50:05 AM
hi pastashock

tables in scribus still don't work as good as one could wish. but you can make the cell borders invisible in two steps:
  • select the whole table (not the cells) then select the border line in 'table properties' and set its colour to 'none' – this will remove the top and left border.
  • double click in a cell, then select all the cells and repeat the steps in the  'table properties'. this will remove the rest of the borders.
it's is not really intuitive, but it works...

utnik
#83
General Discussion / Re: Removing all borders from ...
Last post by AdmFubar - September 27, 2025, 10:57:29 PM
Ah the great no border bug...
 you will need them at a minimum of 2 pixels thick. Now you can only edit the borders at this point, the lines for the individual cells will will still be visible, and i dont see a easy to edit them. Might be coming in the next release
#84
Scripts and Plugins / Get position of selected text ...
Last post by Lynn - September 27, 2025, 08:29:37 PM
I'm working on a script for Scribus to speed up making pdf bookmarks and I've gotten a bit stuck. It would be great to be able to speed up making chapter titles or section titles into bookmarks.

What I would like the script to do is:
    • copy the text currently highlighted
    • create a new text frame on a separate layer (let's call it "Bookmarks)
    • paste the highlighted text into our new frame
    • set that new frame to be a bookmark
    • swap back to our original layer

I've got most of that working. But what I can't figure out is aligning align my new bookmark text frame with the original selected text. Is there a script command to fetch the starting coordinates of currently selected text? The best I can do is position at the starting coordinates of the text frame, which in a book is probably the top of the page.

(code is a WIP, I need to add error checking, styling and setting the size for the text frame)
activeLayer = scribus.getActiveLayer()
position = scribus.getPosition()
size = scribus.getSize()
scribus.copyObjects()
bookmarkText = scribus.getFrameText()
bookmarkName = bookmarkText
scribus.setActiveLayer("Bookmarks")
scribus.createText(position[0], position[1], 5.5, 0.25, bookmarkName)
scribus.insertText(bookmarkText, 0, bookmarkName)
scribus.setPDFBookmark(1, bookmarkName)
scribus.setActiveLayer(activeLayer)
#85
General Discussion / Removing all borders from a ta...
Last post by PastaShock - September 27, 2025, 06:19:14 PM
I'm creating tables in Scribus. I need none of the cells to have a border, and I can't seem to find a way to do that. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
#86
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.
#87
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.
#88
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.
#89
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.
#90
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.