Building scribus is a PITA. It's complex (many dependencies) and take a long time. Enter 3rd party 'binary' style builds. Anyone interested in maintaining one for testers and/or folks that want to use more bleeding edge functionality ?

Hello there,

I'm looking to create a bilingual book : English on the left page, French on the right one. My two texts were not put together yet, so I need to bring them together in one file. Can Scribus do that easily ? For example, could I just paste my text only on the right pages ? If so, can you point me towards a tutorial I could use ?

Thanks in advance :) !

Working with FPDM and putting together a PDF form with fields to be populated. I have everything put together, except I cannot seem to set a comb of character for fields the same way you do in Adobe Acrobat to make the characters field the entire text field.

Has anyone found a way to make this work?

Thanks!

So, here's something that drives me nuts. Every time I open the Story Editor window (for example) it can be a different size or in a different place. Is there a way to get it to stay the size I want it. Tired of resizing it every time I open it.

Its like this with almost all windows .. this is just an example.

TIS

I want to add GhostScript to Scribus and the only GhostScript version available on their official download page is snap? I use Fedora so no snaps. did I get something wrong?

Trying to print something with colored text and it's coming out in grayscale. Color management is on and printer will print color through other programs. Any ideas?

Hi! So, I'm not a professional and just started using Inkscape a few weeks ago. Now I have a vector image that I need to export for printing, as a PDF/X1-A. The problem is when I export to PDF from Inkscape, it works great and this is the result:

This PDF is perfect, just as I see on Inkscape!

But when I open it on Scribus to make it a PDF/X1-A, this is what happens:

https://preview.redd.it/rv40k5dg5lud1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=04c76556f69eaeae0ae2664b746b498cc6b69e3d

Anyone know what's going on?

I appreciate any help, thanks!

I'm working on a project to create rankings list for wrestling. There are 14 weight classes and I want to create graphics similiar (though not exact) to the one below. Would Scribus be a good tool for doing this and then feeding my rankings data and school logos from a CSV to use ScribusGenerator to populate the 14 different graphics?

https://preview.redd.it/jh6j831xyspd1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=6d7f01befcede3781764c9109244667b8b8062a8

PLEASE somebody help me, I've been trying for weeks to find the option to edit the line spacing in textboxes in scribus. I have no shortcuts installed, where do I find it in the normal menu? thx in advance!

I'm only using it to scan images, and/or resize them?

Hi, i'm brazilian (sorry about my bad english)!

I'm diagramming a scientific journal issue and I'm using Scribus to do that.

I'm having a problem with table creating. I can't import the table from my microsoft word document and i can't create a new table exactly the same on the software.

Someone have a tutorial or any tip to do this? I really apreciate any help!

Hello, I have a little problem with my new CV : I use an arrow with a shadow, and it exports OK in picture mode, but not in PDF mode. It is even worse if I try to print to PDF.

https://preview.redd.it/1d5vo7y25eld1.png?width=387&format=png&auto=webp&s=edb8028b40477a4ca46d92183da77c124e8d114b

https://preview.redd.it/qxq6rul45eld1.png?width=396&format=png&auto=webp&s=6c3603abfea87c21b85af307e7b75e07b2a43cfc

https://preview.redd.it/o52mn6r55eld1.png?width=564&format=png&auto=webp&s=0922fabe2b540cc3ee56a34005066c1a61642b5f

I keep running into variations of this issue, program will work fine for a time and then new documents/opening existing documents will not take up the full window in windows, this time I can click on items in the window but that's it.

https://preview.redd.it/szt9f78io6kd1.png?width=3836&format=png&auto=webp&s=b37897e700606e0ab3026264952206ef54f8a93d

https://github.com/Mperonen

I have gotten into Scribus lately. It sure is a great layout software and I noticed it has an awesome Python API to automate things with scripts.

I have started to work on some basic utilities and the first script I created is a bare bone raw text importer. It basically allows you to import a raw text file (also works if no document is open, it will open the new document dialog). It will then read the text file and create pages/linked text frames automatically for the imported text. I will fix and add more features over time.

If anyone notices things in need of fixing or if you have a suggestion/wishes for some script idea, I would be happy to try tackle them.

Every Scribus related repo will be named in format "ScribusSriptDescriptiveName"

Thank you for your time and enjoy your day!

EDIT: I just realized there is an automatic text frame option in the New Document dialog, After document creation when you right-click the first text frame you can import text with inbuilt function easily. It seems that method is very optimized, works fast and really well!

So please, take my script only as a learning process into scripting.

Will try find areas to automate that are actually useful ;)

Greetings,

Text Box Editing / Formatting Issue? See below.

I have a form, which I originally created in Publisher, then I later transitioned to InDesign. Publisher when bad years ago... so dropped for most everything. Adobe kept jacking their prices till I just could no longer justify it anymore. I have switched to Scribus 1.6.1 and found it to be very capable and without a lot of extra stuff I don't need. I like it so far. Probably used for 6 months.

My issue: I have several Text Boxes, which I use to fill out special label forms with data. These are labels for UL rated boxes. With info. like Voltage / Amps and so forth. I have nine Text Boxes, that are linked to the label boxes that contain the data. By shrinking the text boxes, it drives the data into the linked text boxes and shows up in the appropriate places. Did the same in Publisher and InDesign. And now here in Scribus.

This all works: My problem is when I Expand the top or first box, to edit the content... and edit the text. Which is all Bold format. That is needed for the labesl to be clear. It will some how jump back to Regular font instead of keeping the Bold font setting of the Text Box.

I have tried to go through and change the defaults, for the Text Boxes and other places in the document in program. But it still does this? It is quit irritating?? And that is my question? Why?

No other software I use does this, so this is something that is "weird" indeed. Can anyone help me solve this? Thanks in advance for your help! - Jeff

I have installed whatever the latest dev version of Scribus is available from sourceforge and, despite some claims online to the contrary, it fails to open even IDML files. Any solution?

Context: I do not like the modern macOS and would have switched to NetBSD or OpenBSD, but I need to be able to work with InDesign files. Dual-boot is an option, but far from a convenient one.

I enjoy taking pictures with my DSLR, especially now that I'm on an exchange, and I wanted to make a sort of book with the best ones while also writing my own descriptions of what is going on and how the experience was like. So I'm looking at typesetting something that's mainly pictures, while at the same time having a significant amount of text, which is why I considered Scribus.

My question then is if anyone knows whether Scribus could handle a single project so large as to have a couple hundred pictures, each about 10 MB each, plus the text and the overhead the program must add to its saves. I'm particularly worried about scale since this idea came up because the Google Photos album I made became unwieldy and editing the contents in it became pretty much impossible after about 500 pictures due to lag.

TIA.

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling, still no result. I can't click on anything.

https://preview.redd.it/v50l1h3z3vfd1.png?width=3839&format=png&auto=webp&s=647272721f9ee0ef5d8f0e15e400ae9a0ce00b90

I am trying to copy text for a chanted liturgical service and need to add marks above certain words (like the special mark above the "O" and "y"). I'm not quite sure how to pull this off. Is this even possible in Scribus? I've been searching the wiki and online and not finding anything helpful.

The goal state.

Hi all:

New user here, installing on macOS Sonoma. I am having a lot of trouble getting render frames to work, and my current stopping block appears to be Uniconvertor: I can't get it installed properly. The dmg on the sk1 website (https://sk1project.net/uc2/) doesn't do anything when I double-click it, and the version on GitHub is very out of date and beyond my rudimentary Python troubleshooting capabilities. I'm guessing it doesn't *need* to be uniconvertor, just something that does vector conversion?

The obnoxious part is, I don't even want to do vector conversion, I just want to use LaTeX to do some automatic date stuff.

For the record, when I attempt to place a render frame, I get the "Your Render Frame configuration seems to be invalid, check the settings in External Tools" error pop-up. Rescanning tells me I don't have uniconvertor. I do have pdflatex installed.

TIA for any help or insight.

So Scribus displays a red square on the text box whenever the font type I use doesn't have a character, this was very intuitive to notice, nothing wrong there

Red Square Displayed When Missing Characters on Font Type

but as it turns out this red squares also show in Preview Mode

Red Square Shows Up In Preview Mode

and when I checked on Libre Office Writer that same font (Diggity Medium) had those characters that were being shown as red squares on Scribus.

Font Displayed on Libre Office Writer

When I went to Extras>Font Preview on Scribus the characters I wrote in the box did not properly match the ones showed in the preview when my keyboard was in Portuguese

Font Preview Portuguese Keyboard

And I had a similar problem when changing my Keyboard to English and some characters that were shown in the Portuguese Keyboard stopped Showing on the English Keyboard.

https://preview.redd.it/so52h53w8bbd1.png?width=646&format=png&auto=webp&s=eeeb1c5da5152a995ba2375b56ace689fb938c0d

If anyone has any idea about what may be causing this problem please let me know!

Title is the issue. Tried everything, but I can't get the Scribus Generator script to run for my supposedly very simple file.

Screenshot shows the entire file. Pictures are supposed to be placeholders as well, though apparently in 1.6. you can't select "invalid files" that match the %VAR_picname% requirement anymore so I made 5 copies of the picture and named them %VAR_player1% to 5.

https://preview.redd.it/x0hzsx52a5bd1.png?width=2458&format=png&auto=webp&s=e1520e78b6886a1e366996192c802fd9407f0b5a

No matter what I do I will always get a variable error.

https://preview.redd.it/9zs9l0e7a5bd1.png?width=647&format=png&auto=webp&s=d230ac4f156e451e03f4f9cc65a6fddf2f6c32fc

Already changed everything to lowercase to avoid issues with Python interpreting stuff differnetly. Removed the picture to rule that out, didn't work either.

Hi ya all, Been using scribus since yesterday. I need to make a multilayer pdf with my overprint white as the first layer in 100% cyan. Every time I do picture effect > change color > 100% cyan (set up as a „special color“ don’t know the right term in germen it is „Schmuckfarbe“) the picture gets light blue greyish instead of 100% cyan. I do work with png‘s. Is there any way to make it actually 100% cyan? It‘s driving me mad

I want to make a PDF with buttons that when clicked will go from being one colour to another and change a variable.

I've been experimenting with placing buttons and then in the properties of the button, changing the shape to a circle. But it remains as a square.

Is there a decent tutorial out there? google returns trash, or a half working wiki :(

I'm trying to update my scibus to 1.6.2 - However, Windows is blocking the install. "Windows protected your PCMicrosoft Defender SmartScreen prevented an unrecognized app from starting. Running this app might put your PC at risk." Any suggestions?