[scribus] drag and drop images

Gregory Pittman gpittman at iglou.com
Sun Aug 3 00:46:39 CEST 2008


Gregory Pittman wrote:
> Daniel Harris wrote:
>>
>>
>> I have konqueror open on half of the screen and scribus on the other 
>> half.
>> Drag and drop works pretty well most of the time (just not for what I 
>> want).
>> I assume when you say that drag'n'drop doesn't work you are referring to
>> windows?
>>
>>   
> I just mean that at the moment maybe it's not designed to work that 
> way, so the results are unpredictable, in this case not applying the 
> size to frame. I'm not sure why it doesn't work that way, though.
> It also doesn't work with 1.3.5svn (I'm using Fedora 9 and Dolphin). I 
> don't know if it's a bug, since I don't know that the devs want or 
> expect it to work.
>
> Try this and see if it's good enough: after you drag/drop, right-click 
> and select Update Image. That worked for me -- if you look at 
> Properties, you can see that Scale to Frame Size is checked, so the 
> setting just isn't being applied automatically.
Also, you can go to File > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts and set a 
shortcut for Item > Update Image. Ctrl + Shift + F12 worked for me and 
didn't do anything outside of Scribus.

Greg




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