Peter Nermander wrote: >> No. But one of the first things I wanted was the ability to move page >> contents as new guides were applied to a page. I didn't even bother to > > If you think about it, it is not that easy. > > Should Scribus ALWAYS move the page content when guides are changed?
That is neither what I said, or what I wanted. > I > think that will make people even more frustrated, beacuse things will move > around when you don't want to. > > What you really want is "conditional" placement. To be able to set a > position to be located relative the "inside" margin or the "outside" > margin. > > It becomes even more problematic since Scribus only has one reference > point for a frame (it can be set to 9 different settings though). Could a tenth be the top leff corner of the guides ? > If you place a frame in the left margin, using the upper left corner as > reference point, moving it do the right margin will need the reference > point to be changed to the upper right corner (or else it will not end up > correctly). (Of course setting the reference point to upper center will > most likely work too, but then you can not easily set the frame to be for > example "10 mm from the margin", you must set the distance to "10 mm plus > half the width from the margin".) > > So this kind of alignment options need a lot of complicated logic to get > things to work out as expected. In the basic case where people set the guides and work within them, I would have though it would be useful to many people, and relatively quick to implement ? If you want to do something complex outside the guides, do it by hand ? Cheers, J/. -- John Beardmore, MSc EDM (Open), B.A. Chem (Oxon), CMIOSH, AIEMA, MEI Managing Director, T4 Sustainability Limited. http://www.T4sLtd.co.uk/ Energy Audit, Carbon Management, Design Advice, Sustainable Energy Consultancy and Installation, Carbon Trust Standard Registered Assessor Phone: 0845 4561332 Mobile: 07785 563116 Skype: t4sustainability
