Bugs are quite easy to list on http://bugs.scribus.net
Most of 'mine' have been on the to-be-fixed waiting list for one year or little more, so this is part of the thing with Scribus. I consider this of part of the process to remind programmers of us (basic users) basic priorities... JL Marco Boeringa a ?crit : > 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
