Gustale Homen wrote: > Dear all, > > We are migrating the DTP department of a publisher from > QuarkXPress to Scribus. A new magazine is scheduled to be published in > a > couple of weeks, and that will be the first one using Scribus 1.3.x. > > Some preparatory work has already been done, such as putting the people > through Scribus trainning (about 12 hours) and developing a script to > make Mandriva 2005 LE RPMs from Scribus CVS source in one go (btw, we > can > share this if someone is interested). We are now using 1.3.1cvs. > > From that trainning we found some issues that we would like to share > with > you. If someone has any hints how to work around them or on if/when > they'll > be available, it would be nice. > > We can open "bug/whish reports" for the ones you consider that have a > chance > to be implemented. Most of the issues are related to usability and > "working > speed" according to the users.
Sure, just go ahead. > Here's part of that issue list: > > 1 - How can an image be scaled without using its properties window? The > desired feature would be to scale it using the mouse by dragging one of > its edges. Can this be done only through "Scale to frame size"? Yes. You can make that the default in Edit->Preferences->Tools->ImageTool > 2 - Can an image be copied from one frame to another? Instead of doing > a > "Get image" again. Not sure. I think you can also just copy/paste the whole imageframe > 3 - Is there a keyboard shortcut to change the font size? And to scale > an image? > > 4 - Is there some way to scale the text frames proportionally with > the text > (as with ctrl+shift) but with the aspect ratio locked ? (useful for > change > sizes without deforming) > > 5 - Can some sort of style box be created to avoid using the Editor all > the time? > > 6 - Can we trigger "Get Picture" via a keyboard shortcut ? Edit->Preferences->Shortcuts. I don't know about the other items but they should all be doable. /Andreas
