At 10:36 pm +0100 26/1/05, Craig Bradney wrote: >Sure you can.. plus.. dont forget you can use shift click on the properties >palette to do smaller movements.
Um, no I can't. I'm in a photo right now (well, not *right* now, I'm typing this), with the content tool selected, and pressing up/down/left/right cursor keys does nothing. If I select the object tool I can indeed move the whole frame, but that's not what I want. I want to move the photo around inside the frame, in one direction only. Which reminds me, how come dragging an object with shift held down doesn't constrain it to horizontal/vertical? Every object-based app I've every used does that. > > 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. > >This is because you are using scale to frame. Turn that off and this issue >will stop. Functionality issue we havent agreed on the best method. No. I'm not using Scale to Frame. I'm using 'Free scaling' (in the 'Images' part of the inspector palette, yes?). I just tried now: click empty frame, cmd-click, Get Picture, click 'Lock aspect ratio', enter 40%, 35%, 33% (is there an up/down 1%/5% scale shortcut combo?), happy with the size, adjusted the position a little, clicked onto the next frame... whammo, the photo jumps up into the top left corner. I'm not imagining it! >You answered your own question there. View menu. Touch? :) > > e) Copy/paste image from one frame to another doesn't work. > >Copy the frame. I have four frames placed on the page exactly where they should be, ie so when I trim between them there's the correct amount of white space around each photo. In the top left frame I have a 'sample' photo, taken by the school photographer. I've dragged guides to match the position of eyes, mouth, & chin. I imported a photo into the top right frame and scaled it so that the features were in the same relative locations. I then wanted to copy/paste that image into one of the two lower frames so I could import the next photo into my guided box. Copy/pasting the frame wouldn't achieve the same result. And if I have the *content* tool selected, copy/pasting should address the content, not the object. > > 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. > >Possibly. Possibly it's a bad idea to get sued when you dispro fit a real estate image and are liable under the terms of the Misdescriptions Act. I can think of only one time when I've actually dispro fitted an image (a duotone in a sidebar - it was so unusual it stuck in my mind), out of the tens of thousands of images I've imported into boxes (oh my sad life!). >AFAIK thats not true. 1.2.1 should be there. FinkCommander says the current version is 1.2-11 (binary and source) and that's the version I've got installed (screenshot attached). At 4:48 pm -0500 26/1/05, Louis Desjardins wrote: >In the Settings>Preferences>Tools click on the >Image Frame icon. Aside of the X-scale and >Y-scale fields you have a little "chain" icon >that allows you to lock or unlock this. Aha - thanks for this :) John. -- ------------------------------------------------- T:01274 581519 www.kershaw.org M:07944 755613 E:john at kershaw.org | skype:johnmkershaw AIM:johnkershaw | Y!/MSN:john_m_kershaw -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20050126/eefa2d83/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: P0CB3AB6D 1 Type: image/png Size: 27436 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20050126/eefa2d83/attachment.png
