Re: scribus Digest, Vol 147, Issue 13

Wena Parry <[email protected]>
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>    1.  GhostScript for Mac (Dimitri Robert)
>    2. Re:  GhostScript for Mac (Craig Bradney)
>    3. Re:  scribus Digest, Vol 147, Issue 9 (Wena Parry)
>    4.  Help. (Wena Parry)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2020 17:25:03 +0200
> From: Dimitri Robert <[email protected]>
> To: Scribus User Mailing List <[email protected]>
> Subject: [scribus] GhostScript for Mac
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> Hi,
> 
> Is there a recent Mac OS X version of GhostScript?
> I didn't found it of GhostsScript website and the link 
> http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/ is broken.
> 
> -- 
> Dimitri Robert
> Formateur ? l'usage de logiciels libres
> http://formation-logiciel-libre.com
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2020 18:22:45 +0200
> From: Craig Bradney <[email protected]>
> To: Scribus User Mailing List <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [scribus] GhostScript for Mac
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> > On 11 Jun 2020, at 5:25 pm, Dimitri Robert <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > Hi,
> > 
> > Is there a recent Mac OS X version of GhostScript?
> > I didn't found it of GhostsScript website and the link http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/ is broken.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Dimitri Robert
> > Formateur ? l'usage de logiciels libres
> > http://formation-logiciel-libre.com
> 
> Hi Dimitri
> 
> It looks like that download has gone as mentioned on our wiki (https://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Installation_and_Configuration_of_Ghostscript#Installing_Ghostscript_on_Mac_OS_X <https://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Installation_and_Configuration_of_Ghostscript#Installing_Ghostscript_on_Mac_OS_X>) so you?re best to follow the MacPorts or Home-brew installation options.
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> Craig 
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> Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2020 12:09:55 +0100 (BST)
> From: Wena Parry <[email protected]>
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> Subject: Re: [scribus] scribus Digest, Vol 147, Issue 9
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> 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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> > On 07 June 2020 at 13:00 scribus-request-rGrgPyRx504ZpDxWM7x1sV6hYfS7NtTn@public.gmane.org wrote:
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> >    1. Re:  Problem with getProperty (Peter Nermander)
> >    2. Re:  Problem with getProperty (Gregory Pittman)
> >    3. Re:  Problem with getProperty (JLuc)
> >    4. Re:  Problem with getProperty (Silvain Dupertuis)
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> > Message: 1
> > Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2020 14:34:52 +0200
> > From: Peter Nermander <[email protected]>
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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.
> > >
> > >
> > 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 09:12:07 -0400
> > From: Gregory Pittman <gpittman-s/[email protected]>
> > To: [email protected]
> > 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
> > > *
> > > 
> > > 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. 
> > 
> > Greg
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> > Message: 3
> > Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2020 18:48:29 +0200
> > From: JLuc <[email protected]>
> > To: [email protected]
> > 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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> > Message: 4
> > Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2020 20:08:26 +0200
> > From: Silvain Dupertuis <[email protected]>
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [scribus] Problem with getProperty
> > Message-ID: <3f888ed6-d59a-dae2-7866-09db187232dc-goEDY2E6dbVyDzI6CaY1VQ@public.gmane.org>
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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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> > Message: 5
> > Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2020 14:58:56 -0400
> > From: Gregory Pittman <gpittman-s/[email protected]>
> > To: [email protected]
> > 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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> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2020 12:43:30 +0100 (BST)
> From: Wena Parry <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [scribus] Help.
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> Thank you very much Greg,
> 
> I have been working on a book in the early version of Scsibus, I am gaing to update the book to the 1.5.3 to see if I can get a better job.
> 
> One of the good things in the old version is that it offer some paterns like A4 and A5 book in landscape and but the 1.5.3 only gibes me the choice of mesuerment.
> 
> 
> I did a book for an Irish auther in the old scribus with no problem.
> 
> A manuel for the version 1.5.3 or uper one.
> Whwr can I get the Gost 
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> Wena Parry.
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