[scribus] text frame wrong location?

[Bert Driehuis]

Hmmm, I just created a fresh document, consisting of 4 single A4 pages in
millimeters with otherwise default settings. If I look at the Y coordinate
in the bottom right corner when I hover my mouse over the extreme bottom of
the first page, the Y coordinate shows around 297 (as expected). The top of
the second page shows around 311, and the top of the third page shows as
623. It's as if Scribus uses one single X,Y space for the whole document. I
would have expected the top Y coordinate of the second page to restart at
zero.

I'm using the Scribus 1.5.6.1 AppImage build for Linux. I also tried this
in Scribus 1.4.8 on a different computer, and I see the same behavior. It
is rather obvious that I have never had to use precise X,Y placement on
multipage documents. Having to calculate the offset relative to the top of
the first page certainly is counterintuitive to me as well, but it does
explain the behavior Erik saw in his document. To precisely position a text
frame 10 mm down from the top of the fourth page (or 13 mm down from the
bleed edge), I need to enter a Y-Pos of 526mm.

I never noticed this before, and it does strike me as contrary to the
principle of least astonishment :-)  Fortunately, this behavior in Scribus
is adjustable.

So, to answer my own questions together with Erik's: go to View ->
Measurement, make sure View Rulers is checked, and check "Rulers relative
to page".

With kind regards,

Bert

On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 4:05 PM Erik Ulijn <erik.ulijn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello scribus,
>
> I've been using Scribus since 2016 to layout our magazine (called
> Stoomtractie) of the voluntary organization SSN (you can locate us in
> Rotterdam of www.stoomstichting.nl.)
>
> Currently I'm running in the problem of incorrect location of text frames.
> I do the following:
>  1. Start  Scribus 1.5.6 on my Raspberry Pi4 running the latest updated
> version of Raspbery Pi - OS (debian for ARM64)
> 2. Open test.sla (tried to attache it but the server complaining the body
> was too long)
> 3. On Page 4 LMB so it is active.
> 4. enter T to draw a text frame.
> 5. press F2 to set the correct sizes of this frame.
> 6. if I enter YPos=10 the frame is removed form page 4 and moved in front
> of page 1.
>
> I'm clueless of whats  happening here, I 'm NOT complaining, really; I'm
> very impressed with the software (started using 1.4 but moved over to 1.5
> because of layout requirements. Printer normally is very impressed with the
> quality of the PDF I send him. I really don't see the need
>  to use for example InDesign.
>
> I double checked scribus on my desktop AMD64 debian 10.8, but got the same
> result. Windows 10, same result. So it must be something in the .sla...
>
> Any help appreciated,
> --
> Erik Ulijn
> SSN- stoomtractie redactie.
>
>
> --
> Erik Ulijn
> 06 48072086
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