On Wednesday 26 January 2005 22:54, John Kershaw wrote: > At 10:36 pm +0100 26/1/05, Bo?tjan ?peti? wrote: > >>a) Where is 'Get Picture' in the menus? I eventually found it in the > >>cmd-click contextual menu, but where it's equivalent in the menus? > > > >i think there isn't one... > > Um, there probably should be. Kinda essential feature of a DTP app...
You have a context menu.. Ok it should be in the item menu, but a context menu is more intuitive and takes less time. > >>b) Once the picture is in, I can't nudge it around with the cursor > >>keys, only with the mouse, which is not fine enough control over > >>placement > > > >you can nudge the picture frame... > > The picture frame is already exactly in the > correct place, lined up with all the other > frames. I want to nudge the image within the > frame, because the person's head is too close to > the top of the frame. I'm completely happy with > its horizontal placement within the frame, and > don't want to muck that up by dragging with the > mouse. Please submit a feature request on bugs.scribus.net for nudging images within a frame. > >>c) Clicking out of a picture box moves the image! After inserting an > >>image and moving it around, the photo always jumps into the top-left > >>corner of the frame! Thereafter it works as expected. > > > >well, the point of picture frames as i get it > >is, that you place the photo in them, and then > >place them (frames) on the page. > > Not usually. A layout is often created with > placeholder frames, with instructions for > cropping the hi-res scans. The scans are then > dropped in, then sized/cropped. But that's not my > problem. My problem is, after I've carefully > positioned the photo in the frame, when I click > out of the frame to select another object, the > photo 'jumps' into the top-left corner of the > frame. It moves by itself! Monstrous! > > >>d) How do I turn off the gridlines? I set 'Guides in front' but then > >>I had a criss-cross green mesh all over my screen. The only way to > >>'hide' it seems to be to set the spacing to the width of the page! > >>Seems that the 'View' menu should contain 'Show/hide guides/grid' > >>(since they're related to viewing) whilst 'Snap to guides/grid' > >>should be in the Settings menu. Odd. > > > >there actually is one. view->show grid / show guides > > Okay, I fired Scribus back up to check. You're > right. Maybe it should be moved next to the > 'Snap' options (or in sub-menus as per OOo?). > > On the other hand, where's the pasteboard? No Show/Hide option for that :( Tools->Scrapbook. Theres no space around the pages in 1.2.x to use as scratch space. > >>f) X-scale/y-scale is unlocked by default - dispro fitting is very > >>rarely desired. Having the two locked together by default would make > >>more sense. > > > >i totally agree with you. if not the default, it > >should at least stay as i left it. i really hate > >this one... :) > > I thought they *were* sticking, but in my > reopened doc it reverted to unlocked. Baaad! > > >>g) Undo doesn't work! This takes the biscuit! I moved an image inside > >>the frame (by accident - I meant to move the frame itself). I hit > >>ctrl-Z and nothing happened! Edit > Undo object move and still > >>nothing happened. > > > >undo will work in the next release... (so they promised ;) > > Oh my. A DTP app without undo? Its actually request a lot less than you would think. However .. wait until 1.3.0 is released :) > Further to my copy/paste query, I just copied the > first page's photos to the clipboard and the > application quit. Oh dear. After the 'Giant > Killer' bravado of this week I presumed > Quark/Adobe had something to be worried about. It > appears not :( > > >>At this point I'm afraid I quit Scribus and fired up InDesign. Sorry :( > > > >well, at least try again sometime... > > I will. Keep up the good work guys. Thanks for being reasonable and polite, unlike our previous "friend" from recent times. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20050126/33279b01/attachment.pgp
