Bill Carini wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 10:32:58PM -0400, Sunil Joshi wrote: > >>Bill, In previous versions when you selected the text and set the >>color shade, it would create a shade of the text color. However in >>1.1.1 what I have noticed is that the color and shades refer to box >>color and shades, not text colors and shade. >> >>May be i am doing something wrong. Here is how I tried to verify this. >> Create a text box and type some text into it. Highlight some text and >>shade it differently (40 or 50%). doing this do you notice any >>difference? Try print preview. In both I haven't seen any difference >>in shade. If you change the color of the highlighted text, the text >>box itself becomes colored. If then you try to change the shade, I >>noticed that it changes the shade of the text box. >> >>I am using Scribus on mac. > > > Did you try changing the text color using the Tools -> Properties -> > Text tools? This works for me (Debian PPC), while using the Style > menu gives me the results you describe. > > Is this new behavior of the Style menu intentional, or a bug? I assumed > it was a bug, since the other features of the Style menu apply to > selected text. This behavior is due to the ongoing development work regarding new Text- properties. Currently only the Properties palette does almost everything right. The Menues need still some work to behave properly.
Best Regards, Franz Schmid
