[scribus] Three questions and a suggestion

[Vladimir Savic]

On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 16:56 +0200, Ian "Witty" Whitfield wrote:
> Hi All

> [NOTE - After I save the .sla as a PDF Document I then use pdftops and 
> ps2pdf to reduce the size of the file, and I think this is where the 
> 'links' are being disabled although they did not get "lost" in the past]

You can easily check if this is indeed place where links are lost by
opening PDF in Adobe Reader before doing pdf2ps.

> 2) I've read about a Spell Checker that runs in Scribus - where can I 
> find this and how is it installed?

Didn't need it - haven't found it! :)

> 3) There are one or two Glyphs I use a lot in my publication - Is there 
> a way of setting a 'Shortcut' to be able to insert these without the 
> trouble of going to Story Editor>insert Glyphs, select Glyph, Insert, 
> Close windows, Close SE. ??? Rather a pain for something you use a lot!!

What about using character map application (both gnome and kde have
them) for easy copy+paste. Second solution is to make an empty frame
outside of page that contain characters you use a lot. Third, I haven't
managed to make this working, yet it's suggested by official
documentation, hit F12 and insert unicode hex value of desired glyph.
Pay special attention on last paragraph.
http://documentation.scribus.net/index.php/Special_Characters

> Last of all a suggestion - I tend to edit my document at 120% 'normal 
> view' but as soon as you go up or down this changes back to 100%.

What do you mean by "going up or down"?

> I have 
> seen people mention this before. Would it not be an idea to have 
> whatever you set as the view magnification to be the "base value" so 
> that you can look at the page bigger or smaller but when you return to 
> "normal view" it is still at whatever you set it to in the beginning??

What did you do to define "beginning" value?

Vlada

> Thanks - I look forward to the replies.
> 
> Ian Whitfield
> Pretoria RSA
> 
> I'm using Scribus 1.4.0 rc5 on Linux Mint 10 KDE.