[scribus] degenerate objects

Gregory Pittman gregp_ky at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 9 17:29:25 CET 2010


On 02/09/2010 10:41 AM, Louis Desjardins wrote:
> 2010/2/9 William F. Maddock<billsey at earthlink.net>
>
>    
>> On Sun, 2010-02-07 at 19:53 +0100, a.l.e wrote:
>>      
>>> using your parallel with spell checking, i think that there may be a
>>> list of exception for the current document... but i'm not sure if this
>>> is really a good idea...
>>>
>>>        
>> How about a simple "import check" that could throw up an alert if an
>> importing object would fail some part of the pre-flight check? That way,
>> the user could be asked about their intentions right away, at which
>> point they could either stop the import process and go back to re-do the
>> object to be imported, or tell the alert to set an ignore flag for that
>> occurrence of that property of that object so that the pre-flight check
>> would then see that flag and not throw an alert for that instance.
>>
>>      
> Throw up an alert at the import point instead of at the end of the design
> process could really help people work.
>
> Especially in the case of low image resolution.
>    
Reality check:

If you are importing in a Free Scaling mode, every single image is going 
to be imported at 72dpi, in which case every image would generate such a 
warning.

Greg




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