Thanks, Andreas! I've just filed the bug and posted the SLA file.
Cheers, Thorsten. On 06.06.07, at 15:55, avox wrote: > Thorsten Z?rner wrote: >> >> Dear list, >> >> I understand, that in Scribus 1.3.4 some things are done differently. >> I don't expect Scribus data to be downward compatible... but upward >> compatible I'd do. >> > > You are right there. As long as you dont e dit a frame it should be > exactly > as before, > if not, please file a bug report. > > > >> When I open a file saved with my old 1.3.3.9 I notice one disturbing >> thing: >> Some texts have been moved around, partially moved away from colored >> objects underneath. >> Also, when I try to change these texts with the Script Editor, saving >> them back >> changes the letter size to 15something thousand pt instead of 7pt... >> so I only read the first line and see the crossed to box bottom-right >> to indicate there is more text somewhere. >> > > Can you file a bug and attach your original 1.3.3 file? > > > >> To me it seems that this is both due to the new Style Management. >> I have also noticed that the new Style dialogue has plenty more >> Styles than I've ever defined... >> so which are "mine" and which shall I leave alone? >> > > There should be only two new ones: Default Character Style and Default > Paragraph Style. > Both hold the global style settings for your document. > > There is an issue that copy/paste multiplies styles, also odt and html > import generate > new styles. > > > >> How can I treat old files to work with the new Styles? >> Is there a defined procedure or best practice for that? >> > > Your old paragraph styles will show up as new paragraph styles. > In imported files, all character formatting will be direct formatting. > Direct formatting takes precedence over named styles. > If you want to control character formatting with named character > styles > or paragraph styles, you need to use the new "style sweeper" icons > in the properties palette. That clears all direct formatting and then > the text will use the attributes as set in the named styles. > > The application of linespacing was somewhat unintuitive in the old > version. > It is now a paragraph style attribute and can be set either in a > named style > or directly with the properties palette. > > Currently there is no way to set attributes per *frame*. Any frame > settings > in old documents are converted to direct formatting of the contained > paragraphs and chars. > > Please give us feedback about usability issues with the new style > system. > It's necessarily more complicated than the old system, but I want > to make > it as predictable as possible. > > /Andreas > -- > View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Styles-in-1.3.4- > tf3877906.html#a10989165 > Sent from the Scribus mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus
