Scribus Jpegs not appearing on first insertion

Question

Hi I'm new to Scribus but have been working through my first document well. However this evening have hit a problem...

I can insert an image frame, select a jpeg image and frequently it's just not appearing.

Some images are appearing but then some will not. There seems to be no reason why some work and some don't.

Then preview mode a number of Jpegs which were looking perfect suddenly disappear.

These are files which have been scanned and saved as Jpegs. Actual photograph Jpegs are inserting fine.

Has anyone any ideas about what I could be doing wrong?

Thanks very much!

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Thanks so much for the reply @a.l.e I've checked the image scaling but that isn't the problem.

The printer company I'm going to use scanned in all of the images I'm having a probem with.

One was a photo. It's gone in fine. (Exported to PDF no issues. I checked). That was 3.31mb Width 3518, Height 5210 Horizontal Resolution 72dpi Vertical Resolution 72 dpi Bit Depth 24

One was a Newpaper article 12.7mb Width 5940, Height 8652 Horzontal Resolution 72dpi Vertical Resolution 72 dpi Bit Depth 24

Many were scanned handdrawn A4 pages ranging from 2.37 - to over 6mb They were all around Width 4852 Height 7020 Horizontal and Vertical resolutions are blank Bit Depth 24

Do you have ideas please?

(Edit) Just been doing some more work. Most of the images are appearing on screen now. There are about 6 missing (now with a big red X on most of them). However, when I try and export this draft to PDF, the very first previously questionable image comes up as missing and so the export stops then!

Answer 1

Could it be that you only see the top left corner?

When the image as at high resolution and if you have not told Scribus to automatically scale your images, you will only see one small part of the image. Typically, the top left corner.

To check if this is your issue, select the image frame, open the Properties Palette ("Window > Properties"), click on the "Image" tab and then activate "Scale to frame size".

If this does not bring you further, my next guess would be that the scanner is saving the images in a format that Scribus does not support (and is probably not Jpeg; there are a lot of "esoteric" version of Jpeg and not all of them are supported by Scribus: that is also possible).

If you're sure that the image is "normal" Jpeg, I fear that I would need a sample image to help you further.

After you reply and @Joonas comment, there is a second possible why you don't see the images.

You might have move the images, renamed them, renamed a directory in the path leading to the image or ejected the external drive where they are.

By default, Scribus is only linking to the images (for very good reasons!) and you have to make sure that it can find them at the very moment when you open the Scribus file.
If you see a red X this a huge hint that the address of the image is not (anymore) correct.
(One more option: the directory contains "invalid" characters, but this nowadays rather unlikely, since almost every character should now be valid...)

As Jonas wrote in a comment below, "Extra > Manage Images" is a good tool in Scribus to check the paths to the images.