{"id":63,"date":"2006-03-04T17:08:57","date_gmt":"2006-03-04T16:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/?p=63"},"modified":"2008-09-11T00:05:39","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T23:05:39","slug":"a-double-spread-in-scribus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/tools\/a-double-spread-in-scribus","title":{"rendered":"A double spread in scribus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/babelbooksm.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Philip May and Perl5 software that generated text, it was possible to realise a double spread of a &#8220;Babels book&#8221;. Text is composed of the combinatory of the 26 letters of the alphabet, dot, comma and space, as described in <em>Library of Babel<\/em>, in <em>Fictions<\/em> Borges book. Those books are 410 page, 40 lines per page and 80 character per line. Capitals were added in the script. Those 2 pages were then set with Scribus.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.constant.irisnet.be\/~constant\/tbook\/wp-content\/babel_bookok.pdf\">See the pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Obviously, scribus needs a strong amelioration of its ergonomy. It took something like 3 hours to compose those 2 pages.<br \/>\nHere is a  Scribus Bug Report, encounted during the exercice:<\/p>\n<ul> &#8211;\tNo constrain line drawing (like with shift on other softs).<br \/>\n&#8211;\tNo constrain movement when moving blocs.<br \/>\n&#8211;\tLeading not available in text box.<br \/>\n&#8211;\tBloc always move a bit when selected.<br \/>\n&#8211;\tNo hand to navigate in the document.<br \/>\n&#8211;\tin the Format size selection, custom format should appear first instead of last.<br \/>\n&#8211;\tSelection above\/under object too complicated.<br \/>\n&#8211;\tannoying system of magnifying<br \/>\n&#8211;\tNo indicator &#8220;+&#8221; \/ &#8220;-&#8221; when magnifying.<br \/>\n&#8211;\tWhen magnifying, view is always set in the upper left corner of the document.<br \/>\n&#8211;\tIn Text bloc<br \/>\n&#8211;\tImpossibility to jump from one letter to another in the text box with arrows keys.<br \/>\n&#8211;\tNo undo command<\/ul>\n<p>among other&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But the pdf generator seems to work ok so far, it was very easy to export.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Philip May and Perl5 software that generated text, it was possible to realise a double spread of a &#8220;Babels book&#8221;. Text is composed of the combinatory of the 26 letters of the alphabet, dot, comma and space, as described in Library of Babel, in Fictions Borges book. Those books are 410 page, 40 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[2],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":827,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}