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No matter what I do, I keep getting error messages that my page height isn't correct, even when it tells me it's the exact height they need. My doc is in A5 format, so it's looking for 8.27 (or 8.268) inches, and everything on Scribus and in the PDF ex...

A big thank you to a.l.e, AdmFubar, and finally, to you, utnik. I should have checked the help section before asking for your help. But I first ran into a problem with the background colors (now fixed), and I didn't want to start working on my project ...

hi jwhyhfr what is grayed out in your screenshot is not the text (fill) color. it is the color of the outline of your text. you can select a color here as soon as you use outlined text. utnik

I hope that this is the screenshot that you need.

found this interesting tidbit.. https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html

This is hilarious https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/09/28/bastardic

I don't think that the issue is with the colors or the Scribus version. Would you mind sharing a screenshot that shows the text frame and the content palette?

Many thanks for your help Sadly, as I install this new release and immediately check the font color, there isn't any option. The pen is grey and locked on black.

I downloaded the following version from SourceForge: Released /scribus-svn/1.6.7.svn/scribus-1.6.7.svn-snapshot-20260918-x64.exe Thank you for your advice Have you tried 1.6.6 instead? See if you have the same issue. https://sourceforge.net/projects/s ...

hi aflo12 i can't reproduce your issue with scribus 1.6.6 and 1.7.3 on mac os. the paragraphs are the same as in the source file. what is your scribus version and operating system? could you provide a sample .odt file that produces the problem? utnik

Hey, new guy here trying to learn the ropes. Whenever I try to use the "Get Text..." to pull in text from a formatted ODT or RTF file, it seems to get imported as one single paragraph. Story editor will show: "Here's some text.*This should be another p...