*** sounds like an ambitious project... but I just have *** to suggest, since you are using for full magazine *** production, maybe best to stay with a stable version *** for now ? My five cents worth... I'm just a scribus *** newbie :)
On 10/3/05, Gustavo Homem <gustavo at angulosolido.pt> wrote: > > Dear all, > > We are migrating the DTP department of a publisher from > QuarkXPress to Scribus. A new magazine is scheduled to be published in a > couple of weeks, and that will be the first one using Scribus 1.3.x. > > Some preparatory work has already been done, such as putting the people > through Scribus trainning (about 12 hours) and developing a script to > make Mandriva 2005 LE RPMs from Scribus CVS source in one go (btw, we can > share this if someone is interested). We are now using 1.3.1cvs. > > From that trainning we found some issues that we would like to share with > you. If someone has any hints how to work around them or on if/when > they'll > be available, it would be nice. > > We can open "bug/whish reports" for the ones you consider that have a > chance > to be implemented. Most of the issues are related to usability and > "working > speed" according to the users. > > Here's part of that issue list: > > 1 - How can an image be scaled without using its properties window? The > desired feature would be to scale it using the mouse by dragging one of > its edges. Can this be done only through "Scale to frame size"? > > 2 - Can an image be copied from one frame to another? Instead of doing a > "Get image" again. > > 3 - Is there a keyboard shortcut to change the font size? And to scale > an image? > > 4 - Is there some way to scale the text frames proportionally with the > text > (as with ctrl+shift) but with the aspect ratio locked ? (useful for change > sizes without deforming) > > 5 - Can some sort of style box be created to avoid using the Editor all > the time? > > 6 - Can we trigger "Get Picture" via a keyboard shortcut ? > > Best Regards, > Gustavo Homem > -- > Angulo S?lido - Tecnologias de Informa??o > http://angulosolido.pt > > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20051004/78bbd023/attachment.html
