[Scribus] Layout of Frame-borders

[Thomas Zastrow]

Christoph Sch?fer schrieb:

>Am Donnerstag, 20. April 2006 22:00 schrieb Thomas Zastrow:
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>>I think, a long time ago I mentioned this already ... ;-)
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>>A frame on a Scribus-Document has - when active - a red-dotted border.
>>When it is not active, the color changes to grey.
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>>In my personal oppinion, this lines are looking a bit ... let me call it
>>inelegant. Specially when you got a lot of frames on a page.
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>>I think it could not be too much work to change this red color to a more
>>smoother one? And perhaps shrinking the border-width a little bit, just
>>one or two pixel should do it?
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>>That would be great, and I think, that this little improvements can give
>>Scribus a more professional look.
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>>Greetings,
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>>Tom
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>Hi Tom,
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>I agree with you that it doesn't look very elegant; InDesign is more pleasing 
>for the eye here and in many other aspects. On the other hand, XPress is ugly 
>as hell and it is still widely used.
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>The red lines and dots are useful in most cases, much more than the dark blue 
>ones of ID. The exception is working on a red background. For that reason I 
>think the frame borders (colour and width) should be as configurable as the 
>other lines.
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Thats the salomonic solution: Make them configurable by the user ... ;-)

Greetings,

Tom