Hi list, The recent post from Celso Junior on automated spine in "EasyPose", gave me an idea.
Wouldn't it be a nice feature to have at creative level as well? I mean, within Scribus. More often than not there is some graphic involved on that part of the cover, such as the book title, author, collection, publisher's logo and so on. This always has to be done by hand afaik. It would be nice to have this done with input values like with text frames that you can change at will. I would see it in the proposed Document layout in the "New document" dialog: "Book cover". Would be nice if it was as simple as modifying the size of a frame but this would apply to a smaller (narrower) page in a 3-page document (in the order, from left to right, back cover, spine, front cover). Then, if any of the 2 input values change, the spine automatically changes too. If there are already some elements there, Scribus could tell the user that there was a change that requires attention. The program could offer such option as center automatically all elements in the new spine width (if it's larger) or shrink them to fit the new width. As I see it, one could also skip the 2 fields with a check box and enter a width value, depending upon the info available. And automated behavior could also be skipped to let users do just what they want. BTW, the 3-fold option could be given those extra fields. And if we go further, we could simply give all elements the possibility to be of different width, taking then care of the issue with folding. Not all panels of a pamphlet are necessarily equal. How does that sound? Louis -- Louis Desjardins Mardigrafe inc. Graphisme et impression ?cologique T 514 934 1353 F 514 934 3698 www.mardigrafe.com
