[scribus] scribus Digest, Vol 115, Issue 2

Thu Oct 5 05:03:13 UTC 2017

Hi Martin,

Just wait for my soon-to-be-released "c't Fotografie" workshop to recognise how efficiently LibreOffice (Calc/Draw) and Scribus can be used alongside each other ;)

You'll be in for a surprise!

Christoph

> Gesendet: Montag, 02. Oktober 2017 um 18:20 Uhr
> Von: "ZASKE Martin" <zm at revue-gugu.org>
> An: scribus at lists.scribus.net
> Betreff: Re: [scribus] scribus Digest, Vol 115, Issue 2
>
> Dear Håkan,
> 
> each job its tool:
> 
> For calculations and admin, nothing "wrong" with Calc. But for DTP we
> want total control of Font-Size, Font-colours, kerning options,
> line-spacing, underlying colours, different transparencies for
> print-on-paper versus web-output, line-styles for the frames. So we are
> using Scribus.
> 
> Good luck with using Calc for styling precise output.
> 
> And we want a document, which is "transparent" for our entire team, and
> where we can fix small details to the last minute (sometimes when
> recording the audio for a given page, we still realize that a tiny typo
> has crept into our document; so if the entire document "is Scribus" then
> the layouter can just go in and fix it).
> 
> You propose to make a crossword puzzle in LibreOffice Calc and then
> what? Export to bitmap? Export to PDF or eps? Import as an "image"? If
> you have established a well working work-flow, you are welcome to share it.
> 
> 
> So far, I know what I want to do and I have done it this morning and it
> is working fine. I was just asking a question about making an entire
> batch of many tab stops in Scribus.
> 
> greetings,
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 02.10.2017 13:21, Håkan Löfgren wrote:
> > Hello Martin!
> > 
> > Re: Crossword Puzzle
> > 
> > What's wrong with Excel or Open Office Calc for making crossword puzzles? There you will get the grid and the tabs automatically. Then you import it into Scribus. Voila!
> > 
> > Regards
> > Håkan Löfgren
> > 
> > Message: 6
> > 
> > Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 12:19:06 +0100
> > From: ZASKE Martin <zm at revue-gugu.org><mailto:zm at revue-gugu.org>
> > To: scribus at lists.scribus.net<mailto:scribus at lists.scribus.net>
> > Subject: [scribus] Making a Crossword Puzzle
> > Message-ID: <bdd79d05-11d1-869e-110c-ad0d959c19c8 at revue-gugu.org><mailto:bdd79d05-11d1-869e-110c-ad0d959c19c8 at revue-gugu.org>
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> > 
> > Hi List,
> > 
> > for our magazine, I am doing the layout for a crossword puzzle at the
> > moment - or rather a word-grid, where the children will search certain
> > key words.
> > 
> > I have done this a few times in the past, and what works best for
> > Scribus, is when I am using an array of tabs of type "Centre" because
> > all our characters are of different width of course, some positions in
> > our alphabet even are digraphs like GB or SH (I have hacked a font, so
> > no problem in that area).
> > 
> > ====================================
> > Now I am looking for the way to seed the Scribus Style Manager Window
> > for my word-grid with an entire batch of 17 new tab stops, all of type
> > "Centre" and each 10,23 mm from the previous one.
> > ====================================
> > 
> > 
> > For now - and inspired by a recent mail from JLuc - I have made a
> > workaround/hack:
> > 
> > I prepared a spreadsheet and calculated all my needed positions and have
> > copied and pasted my tab-lines in my mydocument.sla like this:
> > 
> >             <Tabs Type="4" Pos="28.9984251968504" Fill=""/>
> >             <Tabs Type="4" Pos="57.9968503937008" Fill=""/>
> >             <Tabs Type="4" Pos="86.9952755906" Fill=""/>
> >             <Tabs Type="4" Pos="115.9937007874" Fill=""/>
> >             <Tabs Type="4" Pos="144.9921259843" Fill=""/>
> > 
> > Type "4" means "centre"
> > 
> > 
> > I believe I had seen in the past a way how to quickly seed all needed
> > tab stops, if they are spaced with equal distances.
> > 
> > Maybe I am wrong, maybe I had seen that in LibreOffice or in CorelDraw.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > If it does not exist, would other users also see that as a useful new
> > feature? A mini dialogue to tell Scribus, similar to the very useful
> > new-frame dialogue:
> > 
> > "For this style, I would like n new tab stops, beginning at x mm and
> > spaced by y mm and of type z."
> > 
> > 
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > Martin
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > PS: Scribus is awesome for jobs like making word grids, because I have
> > total control over my text-frame: vertical alignment, distances from my
> > frame, background colour, font-size, font, line-spacing, etc. So the
> > grid is exactly what I want (just making the tabs was boring and
> > entering them manually was a risk of typos).
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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