Hi Louis, > The fact is such a feature exists in Quark and I use it very rarely > (somewhere down the Utility menu...).
It's in Utilities > Jabber (at least in my 6.5 here). It doesn't insert "lorem ipsum", but some English/Dutch/French/Latin nonsense text. Using the faulty Latin of "lorem ipsum" (or other sample texts in different alphabets as provided since 1.3), makes a lot of sense, IMHO, because the customer's attention isn't (unconsciously) distracted by reading it. > Surprisingly, I use it very often in Scribus. Me too ;) And I really *like* the feature, as it gives yourself as well as the customer the opportunity for a quick glance on how the final product will look like. *Very* useful in the initial layout process. > I think this is a matter of just how handy the tool is. :) ---> scribus 1.2.x = context menu :) > I didn't test 1.3 yet so I don't know where "Insert Sample Text" is gone now. Insert > sample text (from the main menu) > My guess is if it isn't in the context menu, we might use it less > than we would otherwise. Exactly -- and I'd like to add "should use" to make our life easier. That said, I'd like to stress that I consider usability as one of the strengths of scribus. The context menu (and the properties submenu) provides a lot of consistency for many operations, once you are accustomed to it. QXP, on the other hand, has always been a usability nightmare. InDesign is much better in that, last I looked, but with scribus, working is a breeze -- at least to me and also thanks to the enormous speed improvements in 1.2.2.1/1.3. Christoph
