On Sun, 2003-05-04 at 01:25, George Hail wrote: > Thanks for the tip Peter, that seems like it will work well for what I'm > attempting. I am having slight difficulty though. I can't seem to copy the > boxes and paste them into the new document with the latest (Friday) CVS > version. I can select the grouped text boxes and select copy from the menu, > but I cannot then select paste (it's greyed out), and the ctrl-v does not > work either.
Try sending them to the scrap book or using the new import pages File > Import > Insert Page I do not know or have tested importing different page sizes - yet. BTW, this trick (File > Import > Insert Page > )fixed a problem with a doc, where I could not add addtional pages. So, I created a new doc and imported the old doc. Life on the bleeding edge.... I think Franz and Paul need to give me about a week to catch up with all the new features and additions. <g> > I also have scribus lock up my desktop. This has only ever > occured when after starting scribus, I open a new document. I have had it > happen with the first new document I open after starting the app, and have > had it happen when opening a new document after having pereviously opened a > couple without any problem. It locks up Gnome and while I can move the > cursor around the screen, nothing responds to keyboard or mouse input. I'm > running Redhat 9 and scribus version 0.9.10 Build-ID: 20:27:22 May 2 2003 > F-C-C-T. But does the destkop return to usability ? Launching Scribus is now a more complex issue, as it resets the font path on the fly, for good reasons I might add.. Starting a DTP is more than starting a console... Scribus is actually well behaved. Try illustrator on a machine with 600 fonts. HTH, Peter
