Adrianna Pinska wrote: > On 9/5/06, Louis Desjardins <louisdesjardins at videotron.ca> wrote: > >> Snap to guides is working in Scribus. Please check out the menus. You >> can fine tune the "snapping" option in the Preferences. >> > > Yes, I know that. I meant a similar "snapping" option which would > make an object jump to round-number positions while it was being > nudged (with arrow keys). > What you're saying is it's too difficult to double-click on a number value, then enter the integer? There are plenty of users I think that wouldn't want rounding all the time. > >> Also, Guides >> can be put on a Master Page so there is no need to manually redraw >> them for each page. >> > > But sometimes it's only necessary to put guides in the same place on > two or three pages, and it's not worth the effort to make a new master > page for them. :) That was only one particular example of where > nudging to round numbers might be useful. > > At the moment I don't ever use the arrow keys -- they're supposed to > help position objects precisely, but they don't actually do that: if > you have two objects on the page which you positioned by hand, it's > almost guaranteed that they'll be positioned at completely different > fractional offsets from whole numbers, and thus you will not be able > to use arrow keys to line them up / make them touch / make them a > round number apart. > This may also be a version issue. Playing around with 1.3.3.3, I notice that sliding frames around with the mouse, using the arrows, changes by integer values (I'm using points).
Greg
