On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:35:01 +0200 Marco Boeringa <marco at boeringa.demon.nl> wrote:
> Hi all, > > Just recently downloaded Scribus to give it a try. Since I was not > yet familiar with DTP, the user interface and concepts were confusing > at first. However, with help of some good tutorials and documentation > on the internet, things have become clear and I managed to create a > proper document using styles and a home made template. > > However, I now ran into a serious issue. I used the Calendar Wizard > in Scribus, that creates a tables like layout of text frames for all > the dates. So far fine, and I easily managed to tweak the look and > placement using magnetic lines and all the property settings. > > However, since I also wanted to change the "Distance of Text" > settings (Top, Left etc.) of the Shape tab of a Text Frame, I thought > I could simply do this like I had done with all other formatting: > select multiple frames, enter the desired values, and ready... > > Well, not so! While I can change things like font style, color etc. > of multiple selected frames at once, the "Distance of Text" settings > are only applied to the first selected text frame... > > Is this a known bug in Scribus 1.3.3.13, or do I have an issue with > my installation? And if it is a bug, is it stilll present in 1.3.5, > and if not, do users recommend upgrading considering the beta status > of 1.3.5? > > I am running the latests stable release (1.3.3.13), so not the > Release Candidate 3 of version 1.3.5. Considering all the warnings > about ongoing changes in the fileformat of the beta version, I > thought it wise to stick with the latest "stable" release for the > time being, especially to try it out. > > Thanks for any insights and suggestions of how to change these > "Top/Left/Bottom/Right" distances of text frames in batch, if at all > possible. Hi, Perhaps you could look at the script, CalendarWizard.py and it maybe possible to do some adjustment there. # grep marg CalendarWizard.py provides 20 odd lines of output, try fiddling there (making a backup before you do so) Anyway, just what is you aim, to produce a calendar? If so there other options, pcal is a neat program that provides a postscript output ready for importation into Scribus. Owen
