Hi, On 22 April 2010 06:37, Christoph Sch?fer <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi Bruce, > > > > 2) Escape is impossible from the Master Pages dialog box! This one > > drove me so nuts that I abandoned making master pages and just made a > > separate rectangle and draped some text on top of it for the bottom of > > each page. > > Once you hit Edit/Master Pages, the dialog box that comes up (Edit > > Master Pages) has no exit button. The only way out, once you have > > created the Master Pages that you want, is to exit the program and > > restart! I must be missing something here, but whatever the solution > > is, it is far from obvious. What is needed is a exit button on that > > dialog box that saves the master pages you have created and returns you > > to editing the document. > > Errm, did you see that little x in the title bar of the dialog? If not, > blame > it on Ubuntu ;) > > I think this is actually a Scribus usability issue. It took me quite long too to figure out that you must close the master page window. I believe a button with the caption "Back to normal view" somewhere in the master page window would be a lot more obvious. > > > > 3) "Copy of" paragraph styles are a major hassle. I often have a > > paragraph style that for just one instance I want to centre instead of > > justify, or make bold instead of italic, or change the text size > > slightly, or whatever. If Scribus feels honour-bound to keep each of > > these once-only styles as a "Copy of" style, that's fine, but please put > > them at the bottom of the list, so that I don't need to wade through > > them to get the styles that I actually use. > You can change the name of each paragraph style. If you don't do it, scribus names them "Copy of blah blah blah". > While I'm not quite sure what you mean, I know that there is an issue with > copied styles in 1.3.5+, and it's one of the major reasons for not > releasing > version 1.4, yet. > > > Thanks for the detailed report! > > Christoph > > Jan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20100422/0f8fedcc/attachment.htm>
