Hello, I was watching the conversation on making creating text frames faster, and I thought I would share a suggestion I have been thinking about since I started with Scribus. I am from the world of CAD/CAM; specifically I am using AlphaCAM. It's easy to find on the web if you're interested. In A-cam (and I think most cad software works similarly), if I want to create a rectangle, I select the rectangle command, then I can either type in the x and y coordinates for the first corner or just click somewhere. Then I am prompted to do the same thing for the second corner. In conjunction with snaps, this is a very powerful way to draw geometries. I am curious to know if this seems as intuitive to people here as it is to me. Very often in Scribus, I draw a frame roughly where I want it, then change the start points and size in the properties. This seems redundant to me.
The snaps mentioned above also would be helpful to me. In seems in the publishing and graphics world, snaps are only to the grid or guides. In the CAD world, we can also snap to the endpoints, midpoints, interesection points, etc of other objects. I realize this would be a lot of work and goes against the paradigm of this community, but I would encourage you to try some cad software and see how it works. Matthew
