How do I adjust leading???!! It's adding extra space after each line like MS Word does and it's driving me nuts. I searched here and couldn't find anything and also YouTube which isn't helping. I'm trying to make a small thank you card and space is a premium I don't have.

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hello, sorry if this is a noob question because i've just started using the software, but all the toolbar options are invisible to me. if i scroll over them the icon boxes get highlighted but otherwise it's just a grey bar. i tried changing the theme like someone suggested, also rebooted my system, neither worked. suggestions welcome!

Has anyone had any luck using Scribus as a starting point to create a complex (images and text) to an eBook and if so, could I ask what was your method?

Hello, any help with this question would be greatly appreciated. When creating a PDF, if you select "Printer" under "output selected for" in the "Color" tab, will it convert the graphics to a color profile of CMYK?

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I cannot select the boxes with the weekday names in them at all. Yes I select the appropriate layer (Calendar - red), but cannot select or move it. I can send the file, or post it but I don't know how to do that here.

I make raffle tickets with random sets of numbers, which I created using a CSV files. The script has been working great and suddenly I'm seeing a script error:

raceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 11, in <module> File "<string>", line 21, in <module> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'Tkinter'

I'm led to understand that it has to do with a Python upgrade and some of the commands have been changed. Is there a way to downgrade to Python 2 to get it working at least until the script has been updated?

Thanks.

So I created a pretty simple document with some editable text fields a user could add some text and print. Works fine until I compress it - after which the text fields are no longer editable.

The file is rather large, 186k so I'd really like to reduce it. Any ideas on how to do this?

Trying to help a Secretary of a fraternal organization get away from having to pay for InDesign. I've exported the indd file to imdl, but opening that in Scribus just results in it crashing.

I've tried exporting the newsletter as a pdf, then importing to Scribus as vector, which looks fine, but how do I make the text items edit-able again?

Has anyone successfully created a fillable PDF with scribus? I’ve spent the last two days working on what should be a 20 project at worse.

The problem I’m having is related to the PDF field properties. The properties seem to have absolutely no effect.

As an example I’ve set limit of characters, formatted as Number and set a validation range but when I go to test the PDF basically any input is accepted.

Using ver 1.6.1 on Mac.

Would appreciate any experience or ideas on this.

Thanks

I'm likely missing something obvious, but I'm having difficulty in newer versions of Scribus figuring out a good workflow for getting copy from one of the many input formats into a set of predefined style sheets within a Scribus layout.

Imagine you're a newspaper editor. Writers are submitting articles to you, and you need to edit them in a text editor or word processor, export them to one of the formats Scribus will accept, and put them on your newspaper pages in a Scribus layout using the series of stylesheets defined in your newspaper layout that will apply to every story — body copy (with a couple of variations), bylines, photo credits and captions, probably two or three headline and subhead styles, etc.

The challenge I'm having is getting the imported text to automatically adapt to the stylesheets defined in the Scribus document. So, suppose your input format is HTML. The editor wants anything in <p></p> tags to be in Default Paragraph Style or HTML_p or whatever.

The default behavior in newer versions of Scribus seems to be to create a completely new set of style sheets for every single document you important into a text frame. I know there's a check box to stop that in the "import text" window. But it still feels like it's not consistently giving me a set of sensible style sheets that universally apply in this kind of normal publication workflow.

Am I missing something obvious?

I recently came across a video tutorial labeled "How to Format Your Book With Scribus" and was trying to locate the two-sided page option in the software. However, to my surprise, I couldn't seem to find it. After some searching, I realized that the version of Scribus used in the tutorial was 1.4.8, while I had downloaded version 1.6.1 to my computer. I wondered if the two-sided page option had been renamed in the newer version of the software. Upon further investigation, I found that the option I was looking for was now referred to as "facing pages." well I think so? after all the symbol is the same thing!.

Hi there, I'm looking to make a small, A5 32 page photography zine (and an art one in future of the same size).

From what I've seen Scribus has an A5 Base by default which is a good thing (some other free zine/PDF tools I've used only allow A4)

However I'm completely new to it so some stuff like adding text and placing things exactly in center, or changing the background colour have thrown me off a bit.

I've only got a little experience with inDesign in the past but I've been working to use relatively the same techniques (eg changing page colour through adding an image box).

My main concern is the placements of frames/ ensuring things are perfectly centered on said page. Would you recommend it for something that's about 95% photo based with a little text here & there?

And if you've also used it alongside mixamprint, is it possible to export it as a PDF / would exporting pages as images reduce the quality?

A new hotfix version is available after 1.6.0 release.

See changelog here:

• Fixes to text wrapping, primarily evident on later versions of mac OS (13/14)
• Fixes to hyphenation
• Update to tell Windows installer to not reboot on installation of the Visual C++ Redistributable package
• Update DublinCore input fields for Document Information tagging
• Clarification of specific PDF/X export versions
• Some scripter improvements
• Update to poppler 24.01 in our builds.

Source: https://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/1.6.1_Release

Hello! I’m re learning how to use Scribus and really enjoy the program but I’m struggling with one issue.

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My text keeps getting cut off and words are being separated into separate lines in my text frame. Notice in my image attachment, the first line SHOULD read "The ocean..." etc etc. but gets cut off before it even finishes the second word. WHY???

Why is this and how can I change it so that the words don’t get hyphenated or cut off in any way? I used to know how to make this an automatic setting but can't seem to remember how I did it before. (I haven't used this program in a while, and as I understand it's been updated recently)

Thanks!

Since January 1st, 2024 Scribus is officially available in next stable version 1.6.0.

https://www.scribus.net/downloads/

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Scribus - 1.6.0 (Released 2024-01-01)

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0015380: [Language Tools] Can´t paste Spanish content (cbradney)

0011810: [Story Editor / Text Frames] center alignment unprecise in circles (cbradney)

0015447: [Internal] [patch] remove a specific disabled broken code or document what it should do (cbradney)

0013928: [Usability] Y coordinate not updated in popup window (cbradney)

0015980: [Build System] [PATCH] clean up the cmake files (cbradney)

0010106: [User Interface] Create a command launcher (ale)

0017036: [Story Editor / Text Frames] inline items produce a box at the start of the frame (jghali)

0017045: [Story Editor / Text Frames] Incorrect layout of inline items if vertical scale is different of 100% (jghali)

0017050: [User Interface] Snapping doesn't work when scaling frames (ale)

0017056: [Canvas] Page margin rect inherits drop shadow properties of line item (jghali)

0017058: [User Interface] ICC profile comboboxes too short (jghali)

0017065: [Translation] Wrong polish translation of orphan in edit->styles (cbradney)

0017075: [Graphics / Image Frames] Adding a specific .psd file makes itself and the other frames invisible (jghali)

0017079: [Scripter] PATCH: scripter: create setRotation(), deprecate rotateObjectAbs() and add a way to use a specific basepoint (cbradney)

0017081: [User Interface] arrange pages still has 3 and 4 pages layouts (cbradney)

0017083: [Canvas] Changing the line blend mode has no effect on the canvas (nitramr)

0017086: [User Interface] Add context menu to the "Arrange Pages > Document Pages" Panel (cbradney)

0017087: [User Interface] Spiral Edit Dialog doesn't allow angle greater than 360° (jghali)

0017088: [General] When saving the document, arrows attached to spiral shapes are not saved (jghali)

0016333: [Scripter] scribus_version and scribus_version_info should be uppercase (cbradney)

0012499: [Build System] [Proposal] Display versions of all libs used by Scribus (cbradney)

0016865: [General] Tooltips show no text (cbradney)

0014056: [User Interface] Drag/Drop of ODT to text frame should trigger the OpenDocument Importer menu (cbradney)

0015110: [Scrapbook] White objects are invisible in scrapbook (nitramr)

0016987: [Printing] Page prints incorrectly on Windows when using layer blend modes (jghali)

0017017: [Styles] Sort the styles list in style deletion dialog (jghali)

0017019: [Typography] Hyphenation exceptions delete themselves (jghali)

0017020: [General] crash when starting the "insert > glyph" dialog (jghali)

0017021: [General] for loop defect (ale)

0017029: [Scripter] [PATCH] scripter: accessing page > guides > columns/rows (cbradney)

0017031: [Story Editor / Text Frames] Incorrect rendering of rotated inline items (jghali)

0017033: [Story Editor / Text Frames] Copying a frame does not activate paste when editing inside of a frame (ale)

0017037: [Language Tools] File for Dutch hyphenation patterns gives bad results. (cbradney)

0017039: [General] Crash on startup if file recovery fails (jghali)

0016294: [Scripter] [PATCH] add setNormalMode() (and setEditMode()) to the scripter (ale)

0016957: [Graphics / Image Frames] Export to PDF ignores coloring effect on grayscale PNG (jghali)

0016966: [User Interface] About box: Some names formatted improperly in Authors tab (jghali)

0016967: [Build System] Build error caused by removed 'std::unary_function' template in C++17 mode (jghali)

0016968: [Build System] Build error caused by conversion between void pointer and function pointer (jghali)

0016970: [User Interface] About box: table tags not closed (jghali)

0016971: [User Interface] About box: Some text issues in Translations tab (jghali)

0016972: [General] Search & Replace 'Replace All' hangs Scribus when searching for text color (jghali)

0016975: [Build System] Build failure on newer macOS versions than were available when Scribus was released (cbradney)

0016981: [Translation] Translation problems in story editor when changing language from settings (jghali)

0016983: [Printing] Text underline and outline are not printed on Windows (jghali)

0016991: [OS-MacOSX] NSHighResolutionCapable should be a Boolean (jghali)

0016998: [General] Scribus slow and unusable on Wayland (jghali)

0017000: [User Interface] Document Items Attributes in Document Setup/Preferences (cbradney)

0017002: [Internal] Rename ui/cpalette.* to ui/colorpalette.* (jghali)

0017005: [Integration] CI fails because of podofo (jghali)

0017007: [Story Editor / Text Frames] Bad inline object vertical alignement in PDF export (jghali)

0017010: [Build System] CI on Gitlab is failing on podofo (cbradney)

0016948: [General] Scribus does not build with podofo-0.10.0 (jghali)

0016703: [Internal] Internal page links not updated on page copy (jghali)

0014139: [Usability] Default button for preferences should be "Ok" (cbradney)

0016734: [PDF] Build break with poppler 22.2.0 (jghali)

0016737: [Story Editor / Text Frames] Hyphenation stop being applied after conditional hyphen (jghali)

0016743: [Master Pages] Crash when clicking on specific text frame in master page (jghali)

0016754: [User Interface] Keyboard shortcuts always load "iCalamusTM" and modifications cannot be saved. (cbradney)

0016758: [Translation] Norwegian nynorsk invalid file (jghali)

0016759: [Master Pages] Arrange Pages> Document Pages> mini-pages are almost unreadable on hi-res display (jghali)

0016760: [Translation] Spelling error in French translation (jghali)

0016764: [PDF] Build break with poppler 22.03.0 (jghali)

0016767: [PDF] Dashed lines imported from PDF have incorrect segment lengths (jghali)

0016772: [General] Fix various typos (jghali)

0016785: [Graphics / Image Frames] "Show readable text" Option for QR Code on "Insert Barcode" Window should be grey out (cbradney)

0016786: [Graphics / Image Frames] QR code generated by "Insert Barcode" could not show CJK characters correctly (jghali)

0016790: [Documentation] Fix various typos (jghali)

0016796: [Graphics / Image Frames] Issue when opening TIFF file with incorrect embedded ICC profile (jghali)

0016798: [Scripter] importPage() argument usage documentation (jghali)

0016801: [Scripter] linkTextFrames() documentation vs GUI (jghali)

0016808: [User Interface] Scrapbook dialog dropdown menu has unintuitive icon (jghali)

0016809: [Scripter] Scripter crashes with getAllObjects() on a master page (jghali)

0016098: [Typography] A white space width become too small when two Latin words are surrounded by CJK characters in a justified paragraph (jghali)

0016897: [Scripter] Documentation of selectObject() lacks precision (jghali)

0016899: [Build System] No Document Icon is installed on Linux (jghali)

0016902: [Import / Export] Cannot export - save as image when active layer is locked. (jghali)

0016906: [General] Import of Adobe Color Book palettes doesn't work (jghali)

0016907: [Usability] Unremovable or invisible tabulators on the ruler (jghali)

0016920: [User Interface] Cyrillic in Render Frame Editor English GUI (jghali)

0016923: [Typography] OpenType c2sc not practically usable (jghali)

0016930: [General] Scrbus fails to build since code cleanup in r25414 (jghali)

0016945: [Printing] Transparent image sitting above blue frame causes color change on frame where they overlap (jghali)

0014402: [User Interface] Folder icons are missing in file dialogues (cbradney)

0015753: [OS-MacOSX] icons and palette entries are invisible under the dark theme of macOS (cbradney)

0016276: [General] barcode doesn't show readable text (cbradney)

0016802: [User Interface] Issues with "gtk2" application setting in AppImages (jghali)

0016811: [Import / Export] Some issues with PDF import (jghali)

0016821: [Shape Drawing] Scribus crash if you delete a symbol during in "symbol edit mode". (jghali)

0016824: [PDF] Drop shadow of very large shapes shows up wrong in exported PDF (jghali)

0016826: [User Interface] F12 shortcut does not affect Align and Distribute palette (jghali)

0016827: [Canvas] Some objects from left masterpage are not rendered (jghali)

0016830: [Build System] Typo in Findpoppler.cmake? (cbradney)

0016834: [Documentation] Readme file has dead link to Ghostscript (cbradney)

0016841: [Usability] Scribus silently upgrades your file to the new format (cbradney)

0016843: [PDF] Open path with stroke gradient SVG results in closed path in PDF (jghali)

0016847: [PDF] PDFs with layers do not allow layer exclusion when printing on Mac and Windows using Adobe Reader or FoxIt PDF Reader (jghali)

0016852: [General] Moving cursor with down arrow jump to end of next frame (jghali)

0016867: [Usability] If a right to left paragraph follows a left to right paragraph, one of the paragraphs will not work properly (jghali)

0016873: [Story Editor / Text Frames] "Permanently replace missing font" isnt permanent (jghali)

0016874: [Import / Export] CVG-import faulty (cbradney)

0016877: [Build System] NetBSD: link against libexecinfo for backtrace_symbols (jghali)

0016878: [User Interface] File selection dialog box always reverts to small size (reopen) (jghali)

0016879: [User Interface] Pixelated display in Enhanced Character Palette (jghali)

0016881: [User Interface] Section Default Numbering (jghali)

0016882: [User Interface] Scribus first start with tiny window (jghali)

0016885: [Scripter] Pdf export by python scripter embeds fonts which should be subsetted (jghali)

0016889: [Import / Export] Inline image disappears when two sla containing ones are merged (jghali)

0016890: [User Interface] Colors and Fills dialog too narrow (jghali)

0016894: [User Interface] PageItem Attribute dialog too small by default (jghali)

0016901: [Scripter] Provide the information about the page number being "shown" (cbradney)

Hi - am changing the layout of a book, and previous de-widowing and de-orphaning needs undone. Font size resets are straightforward, but is there a way to reset thin spaces to normal spaces, in bulk? I'm open to editing the .sla file in a text editor if I have to go that far. Thanks.

In the 'Settings' tab of Story Editor, there is an option of Display Font. After clicking on the Display Font, there is an option of Writing System. It allows me to select Devanagari and renders text correctly. But updating the text frame does not provide with the desired result. Can this writing system be changed to default in the preferences? Please help.

ex. something very vintage-y looking or new york times ish, thanks!

Hello dear crowd,

I hope, you may help me. I've got a problem with the indication of the y-position of frames.

As it seems, the y-coordinates are "counting" across the different pages of my document, so that, for example, on page five of my A4-document, the y-position is already indicated at above 100 cm.

The problem does only arise in this document, others are fine. The error thus has to have something to do with the preferences of the document - but I don't know, which it could be. Unfortunately, I don't find any solution for this problem on the official support website.

Has this problem occured to someone else? Do you know if or where preferences for the indication of the coordinates for one or across several pages may be set? Or else - do you have an idea about what could be the source of the problem?

For explanation, here is a screenshot (speech is set in German, but I don't think that's a problem):

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Thank you for your help!

My wife wants to put together a family cookbook. Knowing her, it'll likely be over 50 recipes, because she'll want dishes that she's never cooked, but enjoyed when a family member cooked it.

She wants to be able to have several recipes per page, if they'll fit well. Each recipe will have 2 columns for ingredients, above the instructions (paragraph style, not numbered steps).

She wants the data entry to be simple.

I used Scribus decades ago to do a trifold pamphlet, and that's about all of my experience with desktop publishing.

My first thought was to have her save the recipes as plaintext and I'd write something to produce a .troff file, or maybe .tex or even docbook. But I don't know if Scribus has some kind of "mail merge" type feature that would be convenient. I'm trying to avoid doing manual layout page by page, although that is a viable last resort.

She intends to send this to a local printer for printing (our ink jet doesn't do double sided) and spiral binding.

Hi all! I just wanted to share with you my most recent publication, "Noir" - Artist Book by SU4IP. This is my fourth official publication using Scribus. I would love to hear your thoughts and feedback! I have a flick-through video link on my website: https://su4ip.cargo.site/publications

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Front Cover

Page 42/43

Page 72/74

Page 58/59

Page 50/51 (Plus the beautiful Sheffield Winter Skyline)

Greetings everybody,

I am a scribus noob so apologies if I'm missing the obvious here.

I am trying to print a page on a cardstock die-cut perforated paper. I have created the template to reflect the different perforated areas, but it turns out that the die cut template has about 0.4mm offset from being perfectly square with the page.

I've contacted the paper manufacturer, and was told that this is an acceptable tolerance in the industry and that I should adjust my print settings to compensate. So I need to rotate the print by less than 1 degree to align the print with the perforations.

I looked in the manual and couldn't find, perhaps I'm using the wrong term but all I found was articles regarding landscape orientation.

How can I achieve my goal?

Thanks in advance and have an amazing weekend, and an even better Xmas!

Hi all

Does anyone have, or can direct me to some templates for a calendar? I am plaiyng with the calendar wizard but cant seem to get what I want... a single horiz page per month that I can enter events into

TIA

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If I share my scribus file (sla format), another person be able to open it on their scribus and be able to edit it?

Scribus is overwhelming to someone (like me) who is used to WORD. It is so counter-intuitive. Is there anybody on here willing to do a brief Zoom call with me, so that I can ask them for help on some basics for book creation.

For instance, if I want to dump text in from another source . . . how? (I copy 100 pages of text and when I try to CRTL + V it, it only has enough for one page. The other 99 are . . . not there?) I'm so confused.

How do I overcome this?

How do I set it up so that subsequent pages populate automatically?

How do I create headers?

How do I do full justification for the text?

How do I do running page numbers? Etc.

If anyone wants to walk me through these things, I'd be willing to pay you. Let me know.

Hi! I'm working on a design for which I use a exported PDF from a Photoshop file which is approximately 250 mb. If I import the image in Scribus and export to PDF trying to make sure that all compression is off, the result is 50 mb, even if I make sure that the PDF is completely spread out over the file using all its information.

I would like to have as minimal compression as possible, how can I do this?

Hi there,

I will began apologizing, I'm posting here because I use Scribus and I don't know where else to ask. I have created a book for which I have also prepared the hardcover and marbled paper for the inner front and back. The marbled papers will be a double-page spreads. I have formatted the book to be printed in an "trade hardcover" format (5.5" wide, 8.5" tall). What I want is to create an electronic mockup of the book so that when someone open the file it looks like if you are opening a real printed book. Again I know that this is off topic so once more my apologies and I also apologize for not knowing how to call the "thing" that I want to do. To give you a better idea is like when you go to the Internet Archive or Google books web sites, and when you request a book the first thing you see is the cover, then when you "open" the book you can see the marbled paper (if the book have one), and then you continue flipping the pages as if you are reading a physical book. Any idea on how to do that?

I must add that I only use open source software; GIMP, Inkscape, LibreOffice, etc.

Best regards.

Hi there! I'm struggling with some RGB / CMYK things and was wondering whether anyone here could help me out.

So, I need an PDF that is set to CMYK as final export. I've started by designing as I would have when preparing a digital export. A fairly large part of the document consists of a black background, for which I use an RGB code of (15,15,15).

If I export this to a PDF, with color management actived, and enabling Output Intended For Printer, the result is a PDF with a very dull grayish color. If I use the drop-thingy on Photoshop it shows me that the RGB suddenly is (31,31,31). However, the CMYK code of this grayish color that is recognized by Photoshop does coincide with the CMYK code that you usually get when converting (15,15,15) in any digital converter. If you want to convert (15,15,15) in Photoshop to CMYK you get (48,36,36,94) as opposed to (0,0,0,94).

To summarize I have the following questions.

- How does the RGB / CMYK conversion work on Photoshop, compared to Scribus?
- What is the safest way to prepare an export on Scribus? Start with just developing things in RGB like I always do, export to PDF set to RGB, and then convert the final result in Photoshop to CMYK, or should I just ignore the bad looking CMYK export that Scribus gives and hope that the print looks much better? Or is there another way?

Thanks!

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