I just tried this out in 1.3.5. Shift-Alt doesn't constrain the frame to a square. In fact I tries several combinations of Shift, Ctrl, Alt and none of them constrained the frame to a square. For me that is not such a bad thing.
Ctrl-Alt: scales text and frame while keeping the aspect ratio. Ctrl-Shift: scales just the frame. Alt-Shift: scales just the text. Ctrl-Z does undo but only partially. I change the size of a frame and with it the horizontal width (scale) of the characters. Ctrl-Z did undo the frame size change but left the width of the characters scaled wide. This is all with just the frame selected. I find I have to double the text frame and select all of the type and set the width and leading back to the original. I suppose that is where style will come in real handy for resetting text properties. Steven Dayton -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:scribus-bounces at lists.scribus.info] On Behalf Of John Beardmore Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 11:37 AM To: Scribus User Mailing List Subject: Re: [scribus] scribus as pasteup device Steven Dayton wrote: > It is as you say. I'm in 1.3.3.12 on a Window XP machine. I haven't tried it > yet in 1.3.5 on my Vista machine at home as I just installed it last > evening. > > Sidenote: I haven't gone in and fiddled with the keyboard shortcuts so I > hope I can fix or reset the Ctrl-Z to Undo instead of open the Story Editor. For me, win XP, 1.3.3.12, ^Z does seem to function as undo. If I do the resizing text box experiments, ^Z undoes the changes to the text box dimensions. It does not open the story editor, even though the text box remains selected at all times. 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 _______________________________________________ scribus mailing list scribus at lists.scribus.info http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.11.7/1983 - Release Date: 03/04/09 07:41:00
