Thanks for sharing such a nice experience and enthousiast testomony. Le 14/04/2016 08:42, ZASKE Martin a ?crit : > So happy: For weeks we have been struggling with the need to produce > bitmaps for electronic publishing on a non-white background. > Our workaround was to have one extra bottom layer with just a filled > shape (yes, a colored box) on it and bleeding somewhat over the > page-edges. This workaround had several disadvantages, like not seeing > where the page ends and not seeing the guide-lines. (This would be a > secondary issue, why the guidelines seem to be the "lowest" items and > not on top of stuff.)
In the "guides" tab of the document setup-preferences-options-setting dialog, you can choose which is the z-layer of guides, margins, grids and layout items. This enables to bring guides and margins on top of elements if you wish so... Doesnt it fullfull your wishes ? (but of course, doing so could be a hindrance in some other cases) JLuc > > This morning I woke up with the battle cry: "This is too stupid, there > has to be a solution. All other decent DTP programs let us color the > "paper"". > > > I Did another search all over Scribus 1.4.6 and 1.5.1 and joy: Yes, of > course, you can color your paper: > >> File > Document Setup > Display > Colors > Page Fill > > > > You are welcome to roll your eyes or to grin, I am just happy. So I share. > > The good news is this: Even while this option is placed under the > heading of "display" (not for example with "Manage Page Properties" or > "Document Setup"), it still changes your document, not just your > on-screen display; as far as bitmap exporting is concerned. I tested for > .jpeg .jpg and for .png > > For example, you chose to work on light-blue "paper". And your > png-exports will also feature a light-blue background. This is exactly > what we need for our weekly publications. Two thumbs up for our developers!! > > So why am I wasting your time here, just because I happen to be happy? > We are now using Scribus for several years for most of our output. Again > and again we have needed a certain feature and 19 times out of 20 the > feature is here, often quite well hidden. Be it styles, be it extra > colors or whatever. So be smarter than me. If you are struggling or > fighting with very clumsy workarounds for a need which is rather basic > for DTP, please ask or look harder, there is probably a very nice > solution already somewhere in Scribus. > > greetings, Martin > > > > > > PS and mild change of subject: > > If you order that your printer will work on colored paper, you can use > this to simulate the final product. I just tested: If you export to PDF > the content will show up on white background, even if you specify > another color as "page fill". > > My last question is this: If I know that my printer is working on > normal, white paper. And I want my entire document to feature an even, > non-white background, how would I put that into my Scribus document to > avoid the above mentioned disadvantages? > > Luckily we are publishing our weekly proverbs as .jpeg via WhatsApp, so > this question about offset-printing unto colored-background is not urgent. > > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net >
