In order to keep this post short, allow me to point you to a rather old Scribus bug report, which perfectly describes the problem. This specific bug has been fixed upstream, and is not present in Ubuntu 18.04.1, or Xubuntu 18.04.1, or Linux Mint 19. BUT, it is present in elementaryOS 5.0 which is very strange. It would be nice if someone provided some solution since it cripples an otherwise perfectly working package:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/scribus/+bug/177805
Kind Regards
FYI, the Scribus that comes with release-juno comes from Ubuntu
$ apt policy scribus
scribus:
Instalados: (ninguno)
Candidato: 1.4.6+dfsg-4build1
Tabla de versión:
1.4.6+dfsg-4build1 500
500 http://cl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
Remove Scribus
sudo apt purge scribus
Install flatpak
sudo apt install flatpak
Add flathub repo to flatpak
sudo flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
Install Scribus (a newer version - current Scribus 1.5.4)
sudo flatpak install flathub net.scribus.Scribus
What is flatpak?
ref:
You can just add Scribus PPA with:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:scribus/ppa
and after
sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade
, you'll have 1.4.7 version.
If you like you can install scibus-ng (version 1.5.4) from the same PPA.
sudo apt install scibus-ng
If you get an error like "command not found" after using add-apt-repository. Just install software-properties-common and run again the previous command:
sudo apt install software-properties-common
