hi bruce > My wife and I have just finished our first Scribus project, a six > page newsletter for a non-profit group. She has a Macbook, I have a > PC, and we were able to exchange files, each using Scribus 1.3.8. We > very much appreciate the printed manual, the tutorials, and this > mailing list. Thank you all. I have these questions/comments: 1. I > found three ways to set tabs: With the ruler at the top of the page, > As a style, and in the Properties Palette|Text | Columns...| > Tabulators. But what is the pecking order, that is, which settings > override the others? 2. Scribus repeatedly froze, as I recall when I > was editing tabs and indents directly in the text frame. After I > assigned a paragraph style, I had no trouble. 3. Both templates and > documents are .sla. Is there a difference in the file format? 4. Upon > exporting to PDF, one text frame was completely invisible for PDF > versions 1.3, 1.4, and 1.5, but visible for version X-3. The text > frame contained seven mailto links plus other text. Magically, moving > the cursor over the invisible (blank) area of the PDF page, tooltips > popped up, and the links were clickable. 5. The .PDF was 1.3MB and I > was a unable to shrink it with pdf2ps, ps2pdf. I hoped to get to > 300KB, but had a deadline. 6. If I find a reproducible bug, what is > the best way to report it, and what documentation should I provide?
welcome! * http://bugs.scribus.net * steps to reproduce and -- eventually -- example in .sla, .pdf, images used and/or screenshots (it depends on the type of bug). * feature requests also get into there ciao a.l.e
