On Saturday 02 April 2005 21:56, Haines Brown wrote: > I've been anxiously awaiting for months to start with Scribus, and > new fall flat on my face right at the beginning. > > I'm running Debian Sarge, and installed Scribus 1.2.1 from the .deb > testing package. > > Following the tutorial, I open a new document, and a New Document > dialog appears. When it is dismissed, a new blank page is displayed, > showing the margins I had set for the page. To create a frame, I go to > Tools-->Properties to bring up the Properties dialog. It pops up, but > it is greyed out. > > I must have missed something obvious. > > I tried searching on > http://search.gmane.org/search.php?query=&group=gmane.comp.graphics.scribus > without luck. I find my news server does not recognize the > gmane.comp.graphics.scribus newsgroup. > > Haines Brown
Select the text frame tool from the tools toolbar and draw your frame. When this is selected, the properties palette will be usable. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20050402/49d06da6/attachment.pgp
