John Jason Jordan wrote: > I have a large document created in 1.3.5svn before bug 8114 was fixed: > > http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=8114 > > Unfortunately, the problem continues with this document because the fix > for the above bug requires that a new document with all new objects be > created using a later version of Scribus. The fix cannot repair > previously created documents. > > My document is very large and it would be many days of work to recreate > it from scratch. The problem has not appeared for some time, but just > now I discovered that selecting one particular text frame on page 15 > selects all objects from page 1 as well. I cannot delete the offending > text frame without deleting all the other objects as well. In other > words, there is no way to select just the offending frame. I tried all > the obvious things - doing a Save As, closing Scribus and restarting > it, even rebooting the computer, but selecting that particular text > frame still selects all objects on pages 1 through 15. Also note that I > must select the frame by lasso-selecting it; clicking on it with the > mouse selects nothing. > > I am wondering if there is a way to edit something in the xml file that > might be causing this unwanted behavior. Or even if I can delete the > frame in the xml file I would have a workaround. I have the text in a > separate OOo file, so recreating the frame would be trivial. Or maybe > there is another way to select the frame other than clicking on it or > lasso-selecting it?
If you open up the Outline palette, you can select the item there. That should help. Craig
