[scribus] drag and drop images

Gregory Pittman gpittman at iglou.com
Sat Aug 2 23:52:35 CEST 2008


Daniel Harris wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Daniel Harris wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Hello All
>>>
>>> I am new to scribus and I am having a problem with drag and drop.  Well
>>> not
>>> a problem just not sure if it is a bug or just an inconsistency.  I have a
>>> template set up that has some image frames all set with the image to fit
>>> to
>>> frame size, but unfortunately when I drop the image into the frame the
>>> image
>>> always defaults to free scale.  If I update the image then all is well but
>>> it just takes up valuable time (as I have to do this very, very often).  I
>>> was just wondering if there is a possible quicker workaround (eg global
>>> update) or is this a bug that might be fixed in a later version :).
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Check to see what your default behavior is in File > Preferences  > Tools >
>> (Image frames). You can set the default to size image to frame.
>>
>> Greg
>>
>> Thanks for the reply Greg
>>     
>
> I have already set the preferences, Document setup and the image frame
> itself to image to frame but it will not obey it.  Again only when I update
> image and this only becomes available on the second click.
>
> My current scribus version is 1.3.3-12 on debian.
>   
I'm trying to figure out what you're doing. I think it's safe to say 
that drag and drop doesn't work. I gather you're using a file utility 
outside Scribus and expecting that to work, but it doesn't, and the 
internal open file dialog in Scribus won't work that way.

Why not just right click on the frame > Get Image from context menu?

Greg




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