[scribus] guides can be printed?

Gregory Pittman gpittman at iglou.com
Mon Jul 8 11:43:58 UTC 2013


On 07/08/2013 07:40 AM, ZASKE Martin wrote:
> Hi again to the list,
> 
> we are using several installations of Scribus 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 in our office.
> 
> Now for training and for creating internal documentation (style-sheets
> for our team) we came across this question:
> 
> How can we print the "guides" (English) or "reperes" (French), please?
> 
> I tried several tricks and looked at document and printing options and
> could not do it, apart from creating manual dotted lines...
> 
> 
> In Corel Draw such guided are managed by way of their layer-structure.
> So I can easily select to show/not-show and print/not-print them all
> together. (Not meant as criticism, just input about a feature I have
> used for years.)
> 
> Obviously Scribus does have its own way of showing and managing the
> guides, so please help if you have an idea. I believe that those guides
> would be useful in print whenever there is training or documentation
> involved, this could be useful to other users too.
> 
> I tried looking into the xml document structure: Could I use the
> VerticalGuides information to create "normal" vertical lines (which
> would print)? I did some testing, but it seems that guides and lines are
> using different units in the xml so creating lines (by text-macro or
> something) feels like not-trivial.
> 

Maybe you could try printing screenshots.

Greg




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