[Scribus] additional bugreport to bug 884 and bug 746

[Sebastian Röder]

Am Donnerstag, 15. Juli 2004 01:12 schrieben Sie:
> For the lists benefit...
>
> On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 14:21, Sebastian R?der wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 13. Juli 2004 12:45 schrieben Sie:
> > > On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 12:32, Sebastian R?der wrote:
> > > > Am Dienstag, 13. Juli 2004 01:46 schrieben Sie:
> > > > > On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 20:26, Sebastian R?der wrote:
> > > > > > As I have allready reported some weeks ago (bug 0000756), there
> > > > > > are still problems in overtaking the default document properties
> > > > > > to the new document defaults - the upper border in my custom
> > > > > > format document is set to 10mm via the default properties -->
> > > > > > document tab but even after restarting scribus and choosing new
> > > > > > (document) the border is set to 3.17 (the other values are
> > > > > > correct). I also tried other values and deleted .scribus - same
> > > > > > result.
> > > >
> > > > OK - fixed in tonights CVS!
> > > >
> > > > > > Maybe related to bug 0000884: when I have a custom page size,
> > > > > > every time I click on landscape or portrait, the with and higth
> > > > > > values are set to half the orignal values (the document becomes
> > > > > > smaller and smaller).
> > > > >
> > > > > Try tonights CVS.. from my testing, this is fixed. Please let me
> > > > > know and Ill close bug 756 again.
> > > >
> > > > Is partly fixed. This means it works as expected in the File-->New
> > > > dialog now but the old problem still exists in Properties-->Document.
> > > > (I think I didn`t explain that it happens there, too - sorry.)
> > >
> > > Properties->Document? Do you mean Setup->Preferences->Document or
> > > File->Document Setup... ? I dont see it in Doc Setup and prefs is where
> > > we set it originally... ???
> >
> > Sorry, it`s not easy to imagine what all the menus are in English... It`s
> > Setup-->Preferences-->Document where the problem is still not fixed but
> > in New->Document it`s fixed now. Yesterday it was broken in both of them.
> > So the work is at least 50% done - or am I wrong?
>
> Fixed there now too (yesterday)
Yes, fixed!
> > > > Good work!
> > > >
> > > > But the print preview problem still exists here, hope this can be
> > > > fixed till 1.2stable. And I found another little disadvantage: The
> > > > oppacity in the Scribus docs looks much more transparent than in a
> > > > exported pdf, so I had to try a lot to get the right result in pdf
> > > > (checked with acroread 5.0.7 and Acrobat Reader 6 on WinXP).
> > > > Something that could be improved in the future....
> > >
> > > I need to know more about the print preview problem, because I dont see
> > > much of a problem here. You have to use GS 8.x, we cant guarantee the
> > > best results on GS 7.x anymore. Please upgrade and retest.
> >
> > OK, if you say there was an internal change and I need GS 8.x now, I have
> > to do so, but it`s a little strange that the old .sla with latest CVS
> > work fine in print preview and the newly created sla (with latest CVS)
> > dosn`t. One more question to transparency: when I use a jpg photo that is
> > overexposed on some white areas, then the print preview (the working one
> > for an old sla-file) shows me transparency in this areas: I?ve never seen
> > such behaviour in e.g. the gimp (but I like it). Is this normal? (Because
> > jpg itself doesn`t have transparency).
> >
> > > 10% opacity is 10% opacity anywhere, but if you have an example I would
> > > like to see it.
>
> Print preview uses postscript and postscript doesnt support
> transparencies. Pure white is converted to transparent on preview if
> viewing transparency is turned on for an appearance of how it will look.
OK, this makes sense - so due to the ps limitations, my little "pampapaper" 
background with opacity doesn`t show opacity - right? But the "workaround" 
for transparency is OK.
> The issue with the background gradient overwriting the JPG is now fixed
> in CVS.
OK, printpreview works fine now - just the opacity isn`t shown as written 
above. But which background gradient are you talking about? I didn`t set one 
for the page. Does Scribus provide one for the print preview?
> > One smaller new problem:
> > When I set some guidelines in masterpages I can change them with the
> > guidelines dialog of the normal scribus window. When I edit guidelines on
> > masterpages e.g move 5mm to the right I have the old and new ones on the
> > page in the normal window. If I erase guidelines on the normal page
> > (which had been set via masterpages) they are gone, but I can hget them
> > back via the masterpages menu (just open and close, because thy are still
> > shown there). This is confusing - or I didn`t understand a spezial
> > usability feature.
>
> On the jobs for tomorrow.. it shouldnt do it just when u exit the
> template screen. it should do that when u apply the template.
Could there at least be a sync between page templates and the real document - 
if I move one guideline on template I`d like to have this move in the 
document, too (allready working) but without the old guideline still existing 
on the doc. This would pretend me from manually erasing nummerous gidelines 
in the docs each time I change the template. Other manually set guidelines in 
the doc should not be effected (might be the reason why you didn`t erase 
guides on the doc page when changing the template and makes things more 
complex, thought). Having the possibility to change all guides on the doc is 
good feature then.

Thanks for all the good work so far.
I will use the bugtracker for the future since this is what it is for ;-) and 
mark things that should be discussed first on the mailing list (feature 
requests) with "discussion:" or something like this - I hope this makes 
things easier for you!

Regards,
Sebastian R?der 
> Craig