[scribus] Some Suggestions for Improvement

[Gregory Pittman]

On 10/21/20 11:04 AM, Tobias Hemm wrote:
> Dear Scribus team,
> 
> I am an author, designer and publisher, and, since recently, I try Scribus for a book project.
> Before that, I used LibreOffice Writer for many projects, but the typographic options are often too limited.
> 
> I like Scribus very much, and I am surprised and delighted by what it can do (optical margins, options for space between words and glyph extension lead to a very good-looking justified text, far better than in LO Writer). But I ran into some downsides, which are probably not that difficult to improve. So that’s why I subscribed to your mailing list. I don’t want to complain and get angry about problems with free software and then dismiss it; instead, I thought it would be more productive to contribute to the development, as I see a lot of potential in Scribus.
> 
> The following things are what I think can be improved:
> 
> *(1) Resolution of the Displayed Document*
> When I create a text frame and insert a text into it, this text is displayed in a very bad resolution, meaning the letters are pixeled and simply not sharp or crisp. You can see this in the screenshot I attached to this mail.
> The reason for this may be that I have a 4k monitor, and Scribus can maybe not yet deal with it.
> When I export the document to a pdf file, everything is displayed optimally, of course. But this bad resolution is a downside while working on a document, since I don’t get an immediately realistic image and have to export the document very often.
> 

Hi Tobias,

I'm not seeing this at all. Even looking at 6pt text displayed at 500% magnification, I get no significant pixelization. (My monitor is 1600x900 resolution) It must be something about your computer or its function.

Greg