[Scribus] 1.1.5 changes 1.1.4 doc

[BandiPat]

Wayne Maeda wrote:
> On Thursday 19 February 2004 02:41 pm, Bob White wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 05:49:08 -0800
>>
>>Susan Hogarth <susan at ncliberty.net> wrote:
>>
>>>After finishing a newsletter I did in 1.1.4, I installed 1.1.5. Let me
>>>say first that I *love* the things I'm seeing in 1.1.5! It looks very
>>>nice, and I'm happily playing with it already. I want to send you
>>>money (and when I get some, I will...). I'm pretty new to DTP, so I
>>>wondered why everyone was whining that you couldn't make X columns in
>>>a textbox - but I can see that's a HUGE feature to have! THANKS!
>>>
>>>However, the doc I made in 1.1.4, when I opened it in 1.1.5, has some
>>>differences. What I noticed is that text which 'fit' in a  particular
>>>text box was now not 'fitting' - the text boxes were asking for more
>>>space :-/  No big deal, since I had PDF-d the files and sent them to
>>>the printer already, but did anyone else notice this? Is it maybe some
>>>difference int he hyphenator(although even the headlines have this),
>>>or maybe just the text boxes want more'whitespace'?
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I had a real simple one page document that had 6 or 7 lines of very
>>large text.  Some of them were overlapping for a shadown effect.  In
>>1.1.5 a few of the boxes weren't big enough for the text any more.  I
>>found that they all had a blank line at the beginning.  Deleting the
>>line fixed the problem.  Unfortunately without thinking, I saved over
>>the original so I can't check whether the line was originally there but
>>with a smaller font or something.
>>
>>Bob White
> 
> 
> I experienced a few changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.5 too. Basically, it had to 
> do with text frames that were close to the page borders. These frames tend to 
> shift a little in 1.1.5 requiring you to re-position them by hand. This is 
> not a problem unless of course your design is filled with this kind of text 
> frames. 
> 
> A larger problem I encountered is the inability to move small text frames with 
> the mouse. The problem is that the cursor changes to the double arrow even 
> when it's within the confines of the text frame. This makes it impossible to 
> get the 4-way arrow cursor required to move the frame. Perhaps it should be 
> changed so that the cursor changes to a double arrow only when it's directly 
> over one of the 8 red boxes which surround a selected text frame.
> 
> Try this: create a text frame, select it, hover over one of the 8 red boxes 
> until the cursor changes to a double arrow. Move the mouse in toward the 
> center of the text frame. Notice how far it can go before the double arrow 
> changes to a 4-way arrow. 
> 
> If your text frame is so small that the cursor will not be allowed to change 
> to a 4-way arrow, you can never move the frame with the mouse. I sometimes 
> construct maps with little items that all have to be numbered. Moving these 
> numbers can be a nightmare. Doing it with the Properties dialog box can be a 
> bigger nightmare.
> 
> Has anyone else encountered this problem?
> 
> Thanks,
> Wayne
> 
> _______________________________________________

Wayne,

Open your Properties box, lock the frame you want to move and it will 
work wonderfully without changing the frame at all.  I think Peter or 
Craig pointed this out to me on IRC while I was complaining about moving 
small frames.  ;o)

Patrick


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