[Scribus] Fonts

[Franz Schmid]

Bill Carini wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 10:32:58PM -0400, Sunil Joshi wrote:
> 
>>Bill,  In previous versions when you selected the text and set the 
>>color shade, it would create a shade of the text color.  However in 
>>1.1.1 what I have noticed is that the color and shades refer to box 
>>color and shades, not text colors and shade.
>>
>>May be i am doing something wrong.  Here is how I tried to verify this. 
>> Create a text box and type some text into it.  Highlight some text and 
>>shade it differently (40 or 50%).  doing this do you notice any 
>>difference?  Try print preview.  In both I haven't seen any difference 
>>in shade.  If you change the color of the highlighted text, the text 
>>box itself becomes colored.  If then you try to change the shade, I 
>>noticed that it changes the shade of the text box.
>>
>>I am using Scribus on mac.
> 
> 
> Did you try changing the text color using the Tools -> Properties ->
> Text tools? This works for me (Debian PPC), while using the Style
> menu gives me the results you describe. 
> 
> Is this new behavior of the Style menu intentional, or a bug? I assumed
> it was a bug, since the other features of the Style menu apply to
> selected text.
This behavior is due to the ongoing development work regarding new Text-
properties. Currently only the Properties palette does almost everything
right. The Menues need still some work to behave properly.

Best Regards,
Franz Schmid