[scribus] scribus as pasteup device

[Steven Dayton]

It is as you say. I'm in 1.3.3.12 on a Window XP machine. I haven't tried it
yet in 1.3.5 on my Vista machine at home as I just installed it last
evening.

Sidenote: I haven't gone in and fiddled with the keyboard shortcuts so I
hope I can fix or reset the Ctrl-Z to Undo instead of open the Story Editor.

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:08 AM, John Beardmore <John at t4sltd.co.uk> wrote:

> John Beardmore wrote:
>
>> Gregory Pittman wrote:
>>
>>> Steven Dayton wrote:
>>>
>>
>   But AFAIK text is scaled when you hold the Ctrl key while scaling the
>>>>>> box.
>>>>>>
>>>>>      nope
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  It is the alt key that lets you scale text. And Ctrl-Alt does the same
>>>> thing and keep the aspec ration.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Not quite.
>>> Ctrl + Alt as you say.
>>> Shift + Alt for non-proportional
>>>
>>> The Alt key alone will have you moving the entire Scribus window.
>>>
>>
>> Really ??
>>
>> For me in 1.3.3.12
>>
>>    Selecting the text box and dragging it with the mouse moves
>>    the text box, (plus sign with arrowheads / NSEW cursor),
>>
>>    Alt scales with mouse driven aspect ratio,
>>    (diagonal arrow cursor),
>>
>>    Ctrl+Alt scales with fixed aspect ratio,
>>    (diagonal arrow cursor),
>>
>> and
>>
>>    Shift+alt constrains the text box to be square,
>>    (diagonal arrow cursor).
>>
>
> I suppose I should add that this is under win XP.  I don't suppose that
> would account for any difference ?
>
>
>
> Cheers, J/.
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