On Friday 29 October 2004 02:06 am, Brian Blandford wrote: > I am new to Scribus, and have installed version 1.2 on Linux > Mandrake 10. I began following the tutorial, got as far as creating > the photo frame, and accessing the 'Properties' dialogue from the > Tools menu. I entered the x-pos at 0.0, no problem. > However, the moment I clicked the y-pos box, the programme crashed, > and the page disappeared off the screen. This happened repeatedly, > and still happened if I tried to move from x- to y- with the Tab > key as well. The next time I tried to avoid the Tools Properties > dialogue altogether by resizing the frame with the mouse, which was > OK, and I inserted a photo (incidentally, no idea where I am to > find the sample photo to follow the tutorial). However, when I > attempted to resize that, that also disappeared (though the page > remained).
I also use version 1.2 on Mandrake 10 but do not experience your problem with the photo frame. It works fine on my system. Wayne
