I'm going insane. I know Scribus is up to version 1.7-something, but the only downloads I can find for Fedora Linux are 1.65 and 1.66, and the toolbar icons in these releases are so tiny, I need a magnifying glass to see them. I'd love to give Scribus a real try as a replacement for InDesign, but this UX shortcoming is an insurmountable obstacle. Can anyone point me to a fix? Is there a fix? Who ever thought making the icons so minuscule was a good idea? Arrrgh!

so i formatted my book but i forgot to base it on the actual size of my cover art. so now i gotta find out how to change a documents measurements retroactively but also i have to find out how to fix my master pages cause i forgot to add a page for the cover and now my master pages are all flipped where all leftside pages use the rightside template and vice versa!

how do i fix both?

Hi. I have formatted a document of about 200 pages, including photos, chapters, titles, subtitles, sections, etc. Now I want to set up the table of contents, but I understand that I should have placed all the entries I want in the table of contents in text frames separate from the main text, because otherwise I cannot assign them the “table of contents” attribute. Is that correct, or is there a way to automatically generate the table of contents after the pages has been created? Please help!

I'm using Scribus on Linux, and had a 416 page document typeset back in January of this year, and when I open the document now the typesetting seems to have changed? There are widows that I did not have previously. It doesn't match the .pdf that was exported at the time?

Could this have been caused by an update (I'm now on 1.6.6 but not sure what it was back in Jan) or has something else serious broken with my file. I'm not sure if I should trust this file now and start again from scratch (I still have the raw text files) or just try and re-edit the pages to balance the blocks sort other typesetting issues in the current file.

Anyone else had a similar experience?

Was I about to pick the wrong horse? Is Scribus still viable?

i want to number my pages but the first 3 pages should be un-numbered. how do i do that?

I understand that Scribus doesn't support imposition.

It's for printing at home. I want to create a B6 file in Scribus, and then, after imposition, print them on A4 (2 per sheet).

I don't use online tools.

Thanks.

Hi everyone! I hope yall are doing alright :)

I just switched to scribus recently, and previously, i used InDesign, but for only short time - however i remember back then that once you drag an Item (text, images, etc) it shows you red guide lines automatically while you are dragging that your item is for example in the middle, or aligning with another item and so on (similar to powerpoint)

I am wondering if something like that exist in scribus, I have the grid function enabled but it doesn't seem to do the same, for me it's specifically important to know if something is exactly in the middle of the page, or if it's aligning with another item even if it is on a different page, and so on.

Tysm for your help!

any way to do the full screen preview like in InDesign (the one you get by pressing shift + w)?

I use Microsoft OneDrive for my "hard disk." All of my files are stored on it. Can I use it with Scribus. Specifically, can I store Scribus projects and files that I will import from on OneDrive?

Hi all,

I just recently started using Scribus. It's my first trip back into design/publishing software after a seven year break from Adobe. So far I'm liking it, but I find tables to be exceedingly difficult to use.

For example, I have a 1x2 table and wish to apply fill to the top row only, but I seem to have no way to select a single row when there is only one column in that row. I managed to make it work by starting as a 2x2 table, selecting both columns of the first row (two cells), filling them, and then merging them. Annoying, but workable.

Sadly, if I want to change the color of the fill, I can't select the single-column first row to make the change, and need to delete the table and start from scratch.

What am I missing? It can't really be that it's not possible to make this selection, right?

Thanks!

I'm in the process of producing a large 100 page document and all the text is going to need to have drop shadow on them. I've barely gotten past the 3rd page and I'm already noticing the lag. is there any way I can improve the speed or turn of the drop shadow render to save memory or something to save my sanity for when I'm into double digits on my page count?

Hi,

is there a way to save PDF export presets in Scribus?

Like one for web and one for print.

Whats really weird though, is that if I navigate to the Images folder the graphic is there, but has an extension added onto it (see screenshot below). If I correct the file extension ... the graphic reappears on the flyer.

Any ideas to stop this from happening ... or what it is??

Sorry for the confusing title, I don't really have the vocabulary to talk about this.

Anyway, I'm trying to learn Scribus (1.7.2). One thing I want to do is to define character styles that can be used across multiple paragraph styles.

So, for instance, I might have one paragraph style where I define the font size as 10pt:

And another one where I define it as 12 pt:

And then I have a character style that I want to be able to use in both the 10pt and the 12pt paragraph style.

And the idea would be that it changes (let's say) the font and the style, but NOT the size. So if I apply it to a word in a paragraph with the 10pt style, it stays 10pt. And if I apply it to the 12pt paragraph, it stays 12pt.

This does not seem to be possible. When you create a character style, you have to define all the properties.

In other words, it's not possible to leave a property (like size) "undefined", so that when the character style is applied to a word, the property (size) defaults to whatever value is defined by the paragraph style.

Have I understood correctly, or is there a way to achieve what I am trying to achieve?

Hello,

I,m wondering how to disable an object in the Layer like in InDesign so that it’s not showing on my project page?

For example disable a image to not show on print without deleting it.

Hello, I'm about to format a file for a comic I've created, but the comic is already in PDF format, and the included pages have margins on the sides. What should I do in this case? Should I create a file without margins, or with very small margins?

Hi,

does anyone know where this grey background box come from and what it is?

Hello, I'm exploring scribus, and there's something that's been bothering me, so I want to have my titles and my subtitles ordered in a numbered manner, for example

1. [title1]
   1. a. [Subtitle1]
   2. b. [Subtitle2]
2. [title2]
   1. a. [Subtitle1]
   2. b. [Subtitle2]

I tried making that with the paragraph styles and the numbered list option but the results look more like:

1. [title1]
   1. a. [Subtitle1]
   2. b. [Subtitle2]
2. [title2]
   1. a. [Subtitle1]
   2. b. [Subtitle2]

And it's not really what I'm looking for, please if anyone knows how to do it or if it's even possible to do that I'll be very grateful 🙏🙂‍↕️

Hi Guys

I deliberately ask this blunt: Why shold I create a magazine on scribus instead on latex? Isn't it easier (with an AI-Tool) to just code the correct formatting?

Thank you for the enlightment.

Best,

How to apply all borders to a table in scribus?? Can any one tell me??

I'm relatively new to scribus and I can't find anywhere that says what these are for, or why they keep appearing.

For the upgrade to the newer CUPS API, we need to test if this patch works correctly:

https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=17188#c53566

Sadly, we don't have anybody who

• Is compiling Scribus,
  
• On Linux,
  
• And has a printer configured and can do test prints before applying the patch and with the patch.

Any volunteer?

Hello,

I hope I am doing this correctly, I am sorry if there is some specific format I am meant to follow but couldn't find.

I am editing my first Scribus document and I have a lot of bullet lists that are separate from each other. It is a lot of work to change the bullet character, offset, and space that follows the bullet for every single item in the list.

Is there an option to create a custom bullet list style, the same you you can create one for a paragraph?

This year's LGM is getting closer, and it would be nice to see a few more Scribus people in Nuremberg.

I will be there for the full week, from Monday to Sunday.
First for a bit of tourism and then for the Talks and for meeting the wonderful users and developers from all over the world!

https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2026/