On 11/7/18 10:12 AM, Colin Madwolf wrote: > > >> On 6 Nov 2018, at 12:00, scribus-request at lists.scribus.net wrote: >> >> It's no secret that the Drop Shadow pane sucks. It's often unresponsive and >> unnecessarily complicated to use. IIRC, Franz introduced the current layout >> a while back just for testing purposes, and ever since it seems no-one found >> the time to revert it back to its original layout, which was more in line >> with rest of the UI. > > > Well here?s hoping it gets changed soon- anything that saves a mouse click is > worth it. > > An Update on the spinning ball of death: > > I was still experiencing the spinning ball when working on the supposed clean > file that I created afresh in Scribus. So, I was trying to select a small > frame and found it difficult - I then switched on ?make frame edges visible? > - OMG what is that frame overlapping two pages doing there !!! > > It was on one of the Master pages and must have got there buy a Select All > process when copying frames form the IDML files
Hi Colin, I usually keep the frames visible at all times. If I want to see how the page looks without them, I click Preview Mode from the toolbar (note that you can't edit while in Preview Mode). Greg
