Craig Bradney wrote: >On Sunday 30 January 2005 11:00, Peter Nermander wrote: > > >>>Try using the Story Editor to edit text, I suppose you're trying to edit >>>it directly on the canvas but AFAIK that's not the right way (TM) in >>>Scribus, but sure this can be done so if you have time :) >>> >>> >>If one is for example writing a big heading (think of making a poster for a >>sale, then you want the word SALE in big letters) it feels like an >>unecessary step to have to go to the story editor to enter something like >>10 letters... >> >> > >You shouldnt have to. I dont. > > > >>I would very much appreciate a "draft" mode where the text rendering is >>faster (maybe even a setting like "Don't render text below xx points"). >> >>(Ok, I'm using very slow machines, but I can live with that it takes 10 >>minutes to export to a PDF (since I can have a cup of coffee while that >>happens) but it's a lot more frustrating to have to wait 15-30 seconds for >>the canvas to redraw just because I adjusted a heading. OTOH I think there >>is some patch now preventing complete redraw when doing a small change?) >> >> > >Whats very slow? Peter gets away with a P2 450 and has no major issues AFAIK. > >In the end, the changes required to bring more speed to the Scribus canvas can >and will only happen in the 1.3.x series. Theres too many changes required. > >Craig > > Speaking of which, I'm psyched to start testing 1.3 :-)
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