[scribus] Fwd: sla not edited

Gregory Pittman gpittman at iglou.com
Wed Sep 26 11:56:02 UTC 2012


On 09/26/2012 01:42 AM, Christen Anderson wrote:
> On 9/25/2012 11:34 PM, Török Árpád wrote:
>> Hi There!
>>
>> I am new in the list and with Scribus, too.
>> My problem, why I ended up with subscribing to the mailing list is that
>> I am not able to edit sla file, downloaded from net.
>>
>> Let's see my concrete problem.
>> I decided to help to translate some articles from the Ububtu's Full
>> Circle magazine.
>> After downloading issue 64 from:
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuMagazine/TranslateFullCircle?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=issue64.tar.gz,
>>
>> and decompressing it, I have found in its main directory the issue64.sla
>> file.
>> When opening it, I saw everything well, but all editor tools were
>> inactive.
>>
>> What is the problem?
> 
> Hello!
> 
> Only objects (including text) in the current layer can be edited. I'm
> guessing that you're probably not on the correct layer. This particular
> document has 31 layers - that's quite a few to sort through. Open the
> layers dialogue (F6 or /Windows --> Layers/). From there, you should be
> able to figure out which layer you need to work with (you can turn off
> the visibility of most of the layers if you need to, etc.)

Also check to make sure that objects are not locked.

Greg




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