I am glad that I am not alone. I have been publishing since 1991 and used PM, ID and Serif PP along with Quark. I like InDesign the best, hate Quark and PM was too clunky.
Scribus is too buggy for me and I am stalled. I LOVE linux, but I need a DTP program that I can use. and yes -- wine does not work well JP > James King wrote: >> (walks up to microphone) >> >> Hi, My name is James King, and I am a Pagemaker user. >> >> (group responds) Hi Lee! >> >> (but no longer, now that I've switched to Scribus) >> >> Ok, now that I've made my confession, I'll explain my situation. >> >> I made the switch to Scribus just recently, having originally used >> Pagemaker to typeset a piano method book. I am in the process of >> redoing my work (and improving on it) in Scribus. However, I find >> that when I work with the style sheets in the text editor, sometimes >> the changes don't come out right, and when I go to the properties >> menu, there is something different yet again. I am expending a lot of >> effort with the text, and wonder if I'm doing something wrong >> regarding setting everything up correctly. Always, when I go to edit >> text, the style will have a plus sign after it, even if nothing was >> changed from the original style. I will select the style again, >> refresh the text window (of course there are no changes in >> appearance) but then when I go back to check, there's that plus sign >> again, which leads me to think that something changed somewhere. >> Sometimes, if I switch between properties and the style edit, text >> will flip between different fonts , or if I change font sizes within >> properties to make the font smaller so everything fits in the box, >> only the text that was originally displaying in the box gets sized >> down. The remainder is at the old size. >> > Ideally, you want to apply your Styles in Story Editor, since you have > greater control over the extent of changes -- make sure you understand > the various settings. Applying Styles in Story Editor, then changing in > Properties > Text tab can produce unpredictably behavior. In Text tab, > when you change font size, for example, line spacing automatically > changes. In Story Editor, it does not. You can, of course, make some > minor changes in a paragraph after applying a style (maybe a few words > with Edit Contents of Frame mode), but I wouldn't do this extensively. > > Greg > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus ++++++++++++++++++++ Jeffrey L. Place Publisher Sports Place Media ++++++++++++++++++++
