Marco Boeringa wrote: > Hi all, > > Just recently downloaded Scribus to give it a try. Since I was not yet > familiar with DTP, the user interface and concepts were confusing at > first. However, with help of some good tutorials and documentation on > the internet, things have become clear and I managed to create a > proper document using styles and a home made template. > > However, I now ran into a serious issue. I used the Calendar Wizard in > Scribus, that creates a tables like layout of text frames for all the > dates. So far fine, and I easily managed to tweak the look and > placement using magnetic lines and all the property settings. > > However, since I also wanted to change the "Distance of Text" settings > (Top, Left etc.) of the Shape tab of a Text Frame, I thought I could > simply do this like I had done with all other formatting: select > multiple frames, enter the desired values, and ready... > > Well, not so! While I can change things like font style, color etc. of > multiple selected frames at once, the "Distance of Text" settings are > only applied to the first selected text frame... > > Is this a known bug in Scribus 1.3.3.13, or do I have an issue with my > installation? And if it is a bug, is it stilll present in 1.3.5, and > if not, do users recommend upgrading considering the beta status of > 1.3.5? > > I am running the latests stable release (1.3.3.13), so not the Release > Candidate 3 of version 1.3.5. Considering all the warnings about > ongoing changes in the fileformat of the beta version, I thought it > wise to stick with the latest "stable" release for the time being, > especially to try it out. > > Thanks for any insights and suggestions of how to change these > "Top/Left/Bottom/Right" distances of text frames in batch, if at all > possible. I don't think it's a bug. There are limitations on which sorts of operations that can be done collectively on a collection of selected frames. If it doesn't work with multiple selected frames or after you group them, it simply hasn't been implemented (yet).
Greg
