[scribus] scribus Digest, Vol 147, Issue 9

Mon Jun 8 14:11:36 UTC 2020

I have Scribus on my old XP computer and it works O.K.

Now I also have a Windows Home 10 with Scribus 1.5.3 it so diferent that I find my way around and do any work on it. 
I mad an A5 profile on the XP laptop and transfer it with my Flash Card, it opened in the Scribers 10 (1.5.3.)  Now on the Windows 10 version I can import my text but I dont know how to change the text, e.g. size of text, the boxis to get the bold, standard and italics. 

I an realy lost with it! I have been atempting to learn for some Youtube tutorials, my problem is hering and the speed they go the. A book or some text would be beter. 

I am an old lady of 81 yare. 

Please can anyone help.

Wena. Parry
South Wales, U.K.

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>    4. Re:  Problem with getProperty (Silvain Dupertuis)
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> Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2020 14:34:52 +0200
> From: Peter Nermander <peter at nermander.se>
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> Subject: Re: [scribus] Problem with getProperty
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> > I am using version 1.48 and seems (Jluc is right) that although my
> > document is set with millimeters, the getproperty will return points.
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> The reason is simple: Scribus uses points internally, despite the chosen
> units.
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> This is also the reason that if you set something to 100 mm, it ends up not
> being exactly 100 mm (because Scribus converts to points, rounding the
> value, and when that is converted back to mm it may not be exactly 100 mm).
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> From: Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com>
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> Subject: Re: [scribus] Problem with getProperty
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> On 6/6/20 2:13 AM, St?phane Fernandez wrote:
> > thanks *JLuc and Greg
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> > I am using version 1.48 and seems (Jluc is right) that although my document is set with millimeters, the getproperty will return points.
> > 
> > I have tried version1.55 with greg's script and got the same result (document set up in mm but script returns value in points). So if I stay in points, i got the what I see is what i get right.
> > 
> > So I have now an explanation at least but It is a little "weird" as what you see is not what you get when in mm unit and that I am storing those values for further use in another script :(
> 
> This is one of those things that "is what it is".
> >From the manual:
> 
> getImageOffset(...)
> getImageOffset(["name"]) -> (x,y) 
> Returns a (x, y) tuple containing the offset values in point unit of the image frame "name". If "name" is not given the currently selected item is used. 
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> Greg
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> Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2020 18:48:29 +0200
> From: JLuc <jluc at no-log.org>
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> Subject: Re: [scribus] Problem with getProperty
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> Le 06/06/2020 ? 15:12, Gregory Pittman a ?crit?:
> >> So I have now an explanation at least but It is a little "weird" as what you see is not what you get when in mm unit and that I am storing those values for further use in another script :(
> > This is one of those things that "is what it is".
> >  From the manual:
> > 
> > getImageOffset(...)
> > getImageOffset(["name"]) -> (x,y)
> > Returns a (x, y) tuple containing the offset values in point unit of the image frame "name". If "name" is not given the currently selected item is used.
> 
> I guess a scribus scripter API function would be helpfull
> to convert points to cm or inches and reverse
> in the very same way scribus does it
> (= with the exact same ratios and roundings)
> 
> JL
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> Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2020 20:08:26 +0200
> From: Silvain Dupertuis <silvain-dupertuis at bluewin.ch>
> To: scribus at lists.scribus.net
> Subject: Re: [scribus] Problem with getProperty
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> Something set to 100 mm will not be mathematically exactly 100 mm...
> but the precision is such that it will never make any visible difference.
> Rounding errors amount to not more than around 10^(-13) mm
> (0.0000000000001 mm)
> 
> Le 06.06.20 ? 14:34, Peter Nermander a ?crit?:
> >> I am using version 1.48 and seems (Jluc is right) that although my
> >> document is set with millimeters, the getproperty will return points.
> >>
> >>
> > The reason is simple: Scribus uses points internally, despite the chosen
> > units.
> >
> > This is also the reason that if you set something to 100 mm, it ends up not
> > being exactly 100 mm (because Scribus converts to points, rounding the
> > value, and when that is converted back to mm it may not be exactly 100 mm).
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> Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2020 14:58:56 -0400
> From: Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com>
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> Subject: Re: [scribus] Problem with getProperty
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> On 6/6/20 12:48 PM, JLuc wrote:
> > Le 06/06/2020 ? 15:12, Gregory Pittman a ?crit?:
> >>> So I have now an explanation at least but It is a little "weird" as what you see is not what you get when in mm unit and that I am storing those values for further use in another script :(
> >> This is one of those things that "is what it is".
> >> ?From the manual:
> >>
> >> getImageOffset(...)
> >> getImageOffset(["name"]) -> (x,y)
> >> Returns a (x, y) tuple containing the offset values in point unit of the image frame "name". If "name" is not given the currently selected item is used.
> > 
> > I guess a scribus scripter API function would be helpfull
> > to convert points to cm or inches and reverse
> > in the very same way scribus does it
> > (= with the exact same ratios and roundings)
> > 
> 
> But I think one could manage to do this in python itself. There is only a certain level of precision which is possible. For example, when I tried this out, I had an image scaled at 77% and 89%. The results of the script came back 0.77 and 0.8900000001
> 
> Greg
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