[Scribus] is it just me?

[Wes Allen]

Craig Bradney wrote:

>On Sunday 30 January 2005 11:00, Peter Nermander wrote:
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>>>Try using the Story Editor to edit text, I suppose you're trying to edit
>>>it directly on the canvas but AFAIK that's not the right way (TM) in
>>>Scribus, but sure this can be done so if you have time :)
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>>If one is for example writing a big heading (think of making a poster for a
>>sale, then you want the word SALE in big letters) it feels like an
>>unecessary step to have to go to the story editor to enter something like
>>10 letters...
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>You shouldnt have to. I dont.
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>>I would very much appreciate a "draft" mode where the text rendering is
>>faster (maybe even a setting like "Don't render text below xx points").
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>>(Ok, I'm using very slow machines, but I can live with that it takes 10
>>minutes to export to a PDF (since I can have a cup of coffee while that
>>happens) but it's a lot more frustrating to have to wait 15-30 seconds for
>>the canvas to redraw just because I adjusted a heading. OTOH I think there
>>is some patch now preventing complete redraw when doing a small change?)
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>Whats very slow? Peter gets away with a P2 450 and has no major issues AFAIK.
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>In the end, the changes required to bring more speed to the Scribus canvas can 
>and will only happen in the 1.3.x series. Theres too many changes required.
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>Craig
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Speaking of which, I'm psyched to start testing 1.3 :-)

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