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Today's Topics:

   1. Export to PDF - Save Path (Adam Harris)
   2. Re: Export to PDF - Save Path (Johannes Schwall)
   3. US keyboard layout, but with German Umlaute (claas kuhnen)
   4. Re: US keyboard layout, but with German Umlaute (Craig Ringer)
   5. Templates for CD Covers (John Meyer)
   6. Re: file-size (flaco)
   7. Problem attaching text to a long path (Ryan Grace)
   8. Re: Templates for CD Covers (Thomas Zastrow)
   9. Re: Templates for CD Covers (Ralf Kr?ger)
  10. Re: Templates for CD Covers (Thomas Zastrow)


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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 16:52:25 +0000
From: "Adam Harris" <spiceskull at gmail.com>
Subject: [Scribus] Export to PDF - Save Path
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Hi,

I have searched Scribus, and also the documentation, and cannot find an
answer to my query. With most open source software, the option to save
as PDF uses a logical path, that is it saves the PDF to the same folder
that the original document was in.

However, this does not seem to be an option in Scribus 1.3.3.9. Could
anyone please advise what I can do to make PDF save to the same path as
the Scribus document?

Thanks in advance,
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 18:19:01 +0100
From: "Johannes Schwall" <johannes.schwall at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Scribus] Export to PDF - Save Path
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> However, this does not seem to be an option in Scribus 1.3.3.9. Could 
> anyone please advise what I can do to make PDF save to the same path 
> as the Scribus document?

I would like to know that as well ... each time I start a new project
the save path for PDFs is set to the directory of the project I last
worked on. That's quite annoying. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I cannot
imagine a workflow where this might make sense. (Except, of course, if
every project was stored in the same path. But that does not seem to be
very sensible. And using the projects path would definitely not disturb
such a workflow.)

So: Can it be changed to be always the project's path?

Johannes


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Johannes Schwall, M?nster

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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 12:33:44 -0500
From: "claas kuhnen" <info at ckbrd.de>
Subject: [Scribus] US keyboard layout, but with German Umlaute
To: scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de
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Hi all

I found a mac tool which allows to mape ae, oe, ue, and ss onto a,o,u,
and s with pressing the alt key in addition. a = a shift a = A alt a =
AE

Howvever I did not find such a tool for windows xp. does anybody here
have a suggestion? Because I am working on a US macbook I want to stick
to the printed key layout while mapping the extra characters (Umlaute)
to selected keys.

Claas


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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 03:08:00 +0900
From: Craig Ringer <craig at postnewspapers.com.au>
Subject: Re: [Scribus] US keyboard layout, but with German Umlaute
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claas kuhnen wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I found a mac tool which allows to mape ae, oe, ue, and ss onto a,o,u,

> and s with pressing the alt key in addition. a = a
> shift a = A
> alt a = AE
> 
> Howvever I did not find such a tool for windows xp. does anybody here 
> have a suggestion? Because I am working on a US macbook I want to 
> stick to the printed key layout while mapping the extra characters 
> (Umlaute) to selected keys.

Dead keys might do what you want. If so, switch to the "US 
International" / "United States-International" keyboard layout in the 
"Regional and Language options" control panel. It might be somewhere 
slightly different under XP - maybe keyboard?

Anyway, using the US International layout will delay the effect of the '

and " keys (among others) to let them be combined with other keys. To 
get the original keys you have to press space after them, eg quote-space

for a quote. With dead keys you can type 'a to get ? , `a to get ?, etc.

The dead " and ' keys take some getting used to, but you'll soon find 
that you type as fast with them as before. It helps that if there's no 
valid combination what you typed gets input exactly - so, for example, 
if I type 's I just get 's .

The US International layout also switches the right alt key to a compose

key (you'll often see this referred to as AltGR), very much like what 
you're talking about. For example I can type ? by hitting right-alt-s 
and many others are similarly intuitive, including common "utility" 
symbols like ? (right-alt-c).

Unfortunately Windows doesn't offer you much control over dead keys & 
compose keys. You can't use just dead keys or just compose keys; you get

both or nothing, and they're entirely tied up in the keyboard layout so 
you can't turn them on or off for different layouts. Still, the US 
International layout does an OK job, and you can hotkey switch to the 
default one if you run into a program that can't cope. I haven't needed 
to yet, and in fact disabled the hotkey since I'd trigger it 
accidentally and start typing with spurious spaces like " this" .

By the way, Mac OS X has built-in dead keys & compose keys, so I'm a bit

confused about why you needed a 3rd party utility.

The layouts will not be the same with the stock US International layout.

For example, right-alt-a under Windows is ? not ? . This could be 
annoying. Many are the same, though. ? is right-alt-n on Windows and 
option-n on Mac OS X, for example.

There's some information here that could help if you find that you want 
to try to get things more consistent:

http://nascentguruism.com/journal/mac-os-x-keyboard-layouts-on-windows

As a final note, Scribus may not play properly with dead keys & compose 
sequences when editing directly on the canvas, as there have been some 
issues there related to specific configurations. It'll certainly behave 
in the story editor.

--
Craig Ringer


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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:57:47 -0700
From: John Meyer <pueblonative at opensuse.us>
Subject: [Scribus] Templates for CD Covers
To: scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de
Message-ID: <477E81AB.3010801 at opensuse.us>
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Does anybody have links for templates for CD covers for the plastic
holders?


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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:28:29 +0100
From: flaco <inconcluso at web.de>
Subject: Re: [Scribus] file-size
To: scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de
Message-ID: <477E5EAD.8000403 at web.de>
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A nice little application for Windows-users is PDFCreator. Open Source
too, and availeable here: http://pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator
After installing it, it simulates a printer device.
You have lot of preferences to squeeze file size. And if printing from
Scribus doesn't work directly (as it happend to me once) you can do this
workaround:
- Export a regular-sized PDF from Scribus
- Open it with Adobe Reader
- "Print" it with PDFCreator for web use

flacote



Gregory Pittman schrieb:
> Fritz Eichelhardt wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> since 2 years now, i produce 2 quarterly papers, each with 4 dina5 
>> pages. believing very much in open-source and free software, i will 
>> start teaching scribus in my county (rheinland-pfalz) in germany - 
>> later maybe all over germany - in 2008, supported by the party 'die 
>> linke'/'the left'.
>>
>> what worries me a little, is the file-size.
>>
>> those 4 dina5 pages with only 3 or 4 jpeg-pictures exceed my 
>> providers limit
>> of 6MB.
>> so i can't send the paper by email.
>>
>> how can i reduce the file-size without reducing quality.
>>
>>   
> Perhaps the resolution of your images is part of the issue, if very 
> high.
> 
> You also might try this:
> 
> http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Web_optimised_PDF
> 
> Greg
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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 10:42:27 -0800 (PST)
From: Ryan Grace <ryan at familygrace.com>
Subject: [Scribus] Problem attaching text to a long path
To: scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de
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Hello,

I'm using 1.3.3.9 and am having trouble attaching text to a long path.  

I have drawn a rectangular shape using the shape tool.  The rectangle is
about 26" high and 16" wide.  I have a long paragraph of text in a text
frame without line breaks.  When I attach the text to the rectangle only
the top short (16") side of the rectangle  shows text.  The  other 3
sides do not show any text attached.

However, if I edit the rectangle using the node tools (I think that's
what they're called) and add nodes in a few places on the long 26" sides
of the rectangle, text flows around to the longer sides.

So it seems there is a problem in Scribus with attaching text to a long
path.

The adding nodes workaround would be ok, but every place I have added a
node letters in the text overlap each other and become unreadable.

Has anyone else experienced this?  Can anyone think of another solution?

Thanks,

Ryan

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Message: 8
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:26:42 +0100
From: Thomas Zastrow <listen at thomas-zastrow.de>
Subject: Re: [Scribus] Templates for CD Covers
To: scribus at kirsche.altmuehlnet.de
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John Meyer schrieb:
> Does anybody have links for templates for CD covers for the plastic 
> holders?
>   

John, I have such files, should I sent them via email?

Best,

Tom



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Message: 9
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:28:33 +0100
From: Ralf Kr?ger <ralf.kroeger at luki.org>
Subject: Re: [Scribus] Templates for CD Covers
To: scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de
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Thomas Zastrow schrieb:
> John Meyer schrieb:
>   
>> Does anybody have links for templates for CD covers for the plastic 
>> holders?
>>   
>>     
>
> John, I have such files, should I sent them via email?
>
> Best,
>
> Tom
>
>   
Hi Tom,
I'm also interested in these templates. Would you be so kind and send it

to me via email?

Thanks,

Ralf



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Message: 10
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 09:56:05 +0100
From: Thomas Zastrow <listen at thomas-zastrow.de>
Subject: Re: [Scribus] Templates for CD Covers
To: scribus at kirsche.altmuehlnet.de
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Thomas Zastrow schrieb:
> John Meyer schrieb:
>   
>> Does anybody have links for templates for CD covers for the plastic 
>> holders?
>>     

Because it seems so, that there are some people who need a template for
a CD/DVD cover, I put the file online:

http://www.thomas-zastrow.de/scribus/cdcover.sla.gz

Feel free to do whatever you might want to do with it :-)

Best,

Tom



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