[scribus] drag and drop images

[Daniel Harris]

On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 11:46 PM, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> This is the best work around I can find at the moment.  My template had
clear frames and that was a bit of a problem but if I save my template with
pictures already in the frame then it becomes more usable.

Thanks

Dan
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