Hi Lars and JLuc, Believe me, I have worked in IT for almost 10 years as a programmer, and in that time period have reported probably a few dozen bugs and usuability issues to the developer of the software package I needed to do my own development in, sometimes needing to go through quite a battle to get my bug reports recognized (which in the end they almost always did). However, I must admit I am getting slightly tired of having to report the "all-to-obvious"...
If I were a developer of Scirubus, these two issues would be on my top-priority list of things "to-do", as they significantly impair the usuability of textframes in Scribus, and for a DTP that IS a major issue... Before you are suggesting I join the club and do it myself, I bailed out of IT because it was driving me slowly crazy sitting behind a computer all day (I am originally a biologist, now trying to make some kind of living in art)... Anyway, if I find some time, I will probably have it listed... Of course, there is still the possibility, like Michael suggested, that there is a deeper issue with the rendering engine of Scribus having a limitation on the way it handles text. E.g. it might be that there is no programmatical request that allows the Scribus developers to accurately determine the MBB of rendered text. That would make the Scribus developers depended on others to fix it. Marco Lars Behrens wrote: > Am Dienstag, 14. Juli 2009 schrieb Marco Boeringa: > > >> It does seem Scribus could use some serious improvement in this area. >> Having a text frame respecting the Minimum Bounding Box around a text >> would be really helpful, especially for large typefaces. The current >> implementation makes using the Align and Distribute tools in some cases >> virtually impossible. A real loss, as these tools are a vital ingredient >> of DTP or any layouting work in any program for that matter. >> > > Please write a bug report /feature request. > > Cheerz, > Lars > > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > > Response to my "Distance of Text" post here: Marco Boeringa a ?crit : > I am surprised it is not implemented... Programmers have not had the time to implement it, or have forgotten to do it. It would be very wise to use the bug repository to notify them of this usability problem : http://bugs.scribus.net Sincerly, JLuc
