On Monday 01 October 2007 20:21:05 Louis Desjardins wrote: > Hi list, > > The recent post from Celso Junior on automated spine in "EasyPose", gave > me an idea. > > Wouldn't it be a nice feature to have at creative level as well? I mean, > within Scribus. More often than not there is some graphic involved on > that part of the cover, such as the book title, author, collection, > publisher's logo and so on. This always has to be done by hand afaik. > > It would be nice to have this done with input values like with text > frames that you can change at will. I would see it in the proposed > Document layout in the "New document" dialog: "Book cover". Would be > nice if it was as simple as modifying the size of a frame but this would > apply to a smaller (narrower) page in a 3-page document (in the order, > from left to right, back cover, spine, front cover). Then, if any of the > 2 input values change, the spine automatically changes too. If there are > already some elements there, Scribus could tell the user that there was > a change that requires attention. The program could offer such option as > center automatically all elements in the new spine width (if it's > larger) or shrink them to fit the new width. As I see it, one could also > skip the 2 fields with a check box and enter a width value, depending > upon the info available. And automated behavior could also be skipped to > let users do just what they want. > > BTW, the 3-fold option could be given those extra fields. And if we go > further, we could simply give all elements the possibility to be of > different width, taking then care of the issue with folding. Not all > panels of a pamphlet are necessarily equal.
Spines are something I'm looking into right now, esp wrt paper types and sizes etc. Craig
