On 2018-02-27 09:37, Colin wrote: <snip> I hardly, hardly ever use Scribus (love it ), just because I don't do that stuff very often.
> 4. Character styles: apply style to a character, start typing > immediately after and it reverts to default paragraph style - not what > I expected. If you select that character with style and type to > replace the character it again reverts to default style. I would > expect a character style to continue as you type if the carat is after > the character with the style. Also if you select the character, I > would expect the text propertties box to show the style of that > selected character in the drop down for character style - it doesn?t, > it shows ?No Style?. As an infrequent user I also find it difficult applying styles in the story editor. > 6. My images sometimes have an exclamation mark in the box - I have > searched the manual help file to no avail. Clicking on it has no > effect. I have checked one file and it is larger than 300dpi and a > greyscale. > the image probably has an attribute Scribus doesn't like which will be explained in the pre-print check dialogue > 8. The properties pallettes started to get in the way as I am working > on a double page spread and need all the space. So I changed the font > size to 9pt - much better - except that I couldn?t make the pallettes > narrower ? A restart of the program forced that and it is now very > clean looking. However, the ?OK? and ?CANCEL? buttons in the Edit > Master Pages dialogue box are overlapping - they still work but not > with 9pt, I went up to 10pt another re- start and it works now. Some > of the text in the drop down menu selectors overlaps to the left. I really should get another monitor and put all the properties windows on another screen. cheers mick -- Key ID 4BFEBB31
