? (At) 9h16 +0100 29/12/04, Franz Schmid ?crivait (wrote) : >Louis Desjardins schrieb: >>It just came to my mind that this little X is like a dumb light in >>the car telling you the motor temp is too high... when it's too >>late (or very late)... We'd be improving again, and innovating, if >>the little square telling you text overflows would be a number (of >>line) instead. Could be in a square. Could be whatever! But it >>would be anything but dumb. And would help make a decision right >>away: >>a. too many lines to adjust the layout, go back to the editor and >>tell them to cut that many lines (and by the way, you sound smart >>knowing that much about the problem! No more "cut a few, and it'll >>be perfect" thing... who needs an approximation 10 minutes from the >>deadline?!) >>b. 2-3 lines over, track a bit or suppress a subtitle >>c. 10 lines over and this author will never accept a text cut, crop >>the picture instead, crop it! >>d. 20 lines and the same as 3, change the font and squeeze the >>leading... oh! and yes, crop the pic, just a bit. >>e. 300 lines over... well, at least you'll know it doesn't fit at >>all and can ask "by the way who the hell did the layout and thought >>it'd fit!" >> >>:-) >> >>Louis >You can get the exact information how much text doesn't fit into a >textframe when you right click on that frame and choose the "Info" >item on top of the popup menue.
Hi Franz, I will not say enough how I am impressed and enthusiastic with all the work that you do! Scribus is just great, I realize that everyday. And the program has still lots of surprises, like this one! Did you know Quark can't tell you that much? The feature I was thinking of is very close to the info we can get right now. But it would also relates to other variables: width of text frame, typeface, type size, leading (the basic settings we used to deal with in photocomposition coding <M><S><L><T> for Measure, Size, Leading, Type) from which we'd know exactly how many lines of type we have in the text frame, and how many lines -- provided we keep the same text frame width (or "measure") -- are there left when the text frame is not long enough. I guess we already have a good start with the info. As if it were possible to implement the feature as I see it, is a question I can't answer myself! All the best to you! Danke sh?n! Louis > >Best Regards, >Franz Schmid > > >_______________________________________________ >Scribus mailing list >Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de >http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20041229/b957647d/attachment.html
