Am Mittwoch, 22. Februar 2006 01:23 schrieb Steven Boothe: > Hello all. Is there anybody out there that has managed a fair solution > to creating business cards? I'm willing to create a template and write a > "how to" while I go about the process of creating my own cards, but at > the moment I've hit a snag with the snap-to-guide feature. I've just > submitted the following bug report, but if someone here has any ideas or > thoughts on how they managed I would be really grateful to read of them. > > (FWIW, I tried google, docs.scribus, and wiki.scribus.net first) > > Steven > > -- > Bug report: > > OS: Win2k SP2 > Build: 1.3.3cvs > > I am trying to create a template for creating business cards. > > I have set up the dimensions with some guides to help in that process > with the expectation that once I have created one card, I can group it > all together, and copy and paste it into the other panels as designated > by the guides. > > Now when I set the page to "snap to guide" I cannot move the initial > rectangle I created from one designated panel to another. My thinking > was once I finished designing the card in one panel I would simple group > the elements, copy and paste, and move that new group to another panel, > etc. > > 1. Create new document (8.5 x 11 inches and .5 inch margins, default > unit inches) > 2. Page -> Manage guides: > 2a. Add Horiz. Guides at 0.5, 2.5, 4.5 > 2b. Add Vert. Guides at 0.5, 4.0, 4.5, 8.0 > 3. View -> show guides > 4. Page -> snap to guides > 5. Insert shape (rectangle) to fit in upper left area sized for a > typical 2x3.5 inch business card, and resize so that it fills entire > region bounded by the guides. > 6. Now try and drag that new shape to the another region. It should not > work. > 7. Try copying and pasting, then moving the new rectange. It should not > work. > > That's all I've got. If there is a better way of to go about creating > business cards it would be great to know. I tried google, and searching > the usual places but didn't find anything. > > Thanks!
Hi Steven, you can: 1) try to multiple duplicate you card after disabling "snap to guides", arrange all items approximately and then re-activate "snap" 2) move items with the arrow keys. HTH, Christoph
