On Sunday 03 April 2005 04:13, Haines Brown wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Select the text frame tool from the tools toolbar and draw your frame. > > When= =20 > > this is selected, the properties palette will be usable. > > Yes sir, that was it. I'm a bit allergic to the mouse and so tend to > ignore tool bar icons. Will have to break that habit (but in my > defense, the Tutorial didn't mention the step). But is there any > way I can Insert Text Frame from the keyboard (it would have to be > dragged to create it, of course)?
You can in 1.3cvs. All main tools can now be selected by the keyboard. > OT comment: I'm not used to GUI applications, but back ca. 1995 I used > a wonderful word processor based on a DTP approach, named > Describe. It used text frames, also, in much the same manner. I wonder > if anyone's heard of it. Yes.. I had it too on OS/2. 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/20050403/6394ecac/attachment.pgp
