John Beardmore wrote: > John Beardmore wrote: >> Gregory Pittman wrote: >>> Steven Dayton wrote: > >>>>>> But AFAIK text is scaled when you hold the Ctrl key while scaling >>>>>> the box. >>>>> nope >>>> >>>> It is the alt key that lets you scale text. And Ctrl-Alt does the >>>> same >>>> thing and keep the aspec ration. >>> >>> Not quite. >>> Ctrl + Alt as you say. >>> Shift + Alt for non-proportional >>> >>> The Alt key alone will have you moving the entire Scribus window. >> >> Really ?? >> >> For me in 1.3.3.12 >> >> Selecting the text box and dragging it with the mouse moves >> the text box, (plus sign with arrowheads / NSEW cursor), >> >> Alt scales with mouse driven aspect ratio, >> (diagonal arrow cursor), >> >> Ctrl+Alt scales with fixed aspect ratio, >> (diagonal arrow cursor), >> >> and >> >> Shift+alt constrains the text box to be square, >> (diagonal arrow cursor). > > I suppose I should add that this is under win XP. I don't suppose > that would account for any difference ? > Dunno. I'll check when I get to the office or at home. I'm using 1.3.3.13svn on Linux, and it's possible that this might have changed for all OSes in svn.
Greg
