[Scribus] I'm puzzled

Dean McCorquodale dmccorqu
Fri Jul 21 09:21:01 CEST 2006


Pat
Cant answer first question, but for the text frame if you just create a
new text frame on second page and link to first the text should flow on
to second frame.

On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 00:10 -0400, BandiPat wrote:
> Hi all,
> These questions might have been asked before, not sure, but here goes. 
> While helping to show a new user the advantages of using Scribus over a
> word processor to layout a newsletter, I ran into a couple of things I
> wasn't expecting and didn't know how to get around.  The first was an
> age old problem that's been around for quite some time.  The line
> spacing between words/lines, if you increase the font size on the page. 
> She had a two line heading/title and increased the font size.  Of
> course, the lines then ran together.  While adjusting the line spacing,
> all the lines in that text frame were affected!  I thought that had been
> fixed for 1.3.x, but find it to still be a problem.  I'm guessing that
> if you use the "story editor" this will prevent that?  Or at least let
> you size fonts and adjust the line spacing only on the highlighted text?
> 
> Second question is cutting, copying and pasting text.  We imported over
> some text from OOo to a text frame.  There was more text than text
> frame, but she wanted part of it to go to another page anyway.  She
> highlighted the extended text, selected cut then moved to the text frame
> on another page, but it wouldn't paste!  We tried several other cut/copy
> & pastes, but without any success.  I don't understand why this wouldn't
> work.  Is there a special secret handshake one has to do before cutting
> & pasting now?  ;-)
> 
> Learning how to use Scribus all over again!
> 
> Pat
> 




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