[Scribus] Interactive pdf features in 1.3.5

Craig Bradney cbradney
Mon Nov 5 22:49:42 CET 2007


On Monday 05 November 2007 22:12:26 John Culleton wrote:
> On Sunday 04 November 2007 02:39:27 pm Marc Tompkins wrote:
> > Thus spake John Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com>
> >
> > I can get icons for text entry fields, buttons, combo boxes and list
> > boxes up
> > on the Icon bar. But I don't seem to be able to get them placed on the
> > document. I click on the icon, click and drag on the document and I just
> > get a text frame instead.
> >
> > What is the drill for using  this exciting new feature? Or is it still
> > futureware?
> >
> > Once you've placed the field on your document, right-click on it.  Near
> > the middle of the menu you'll see a sub-menu called "PDF Options"; select
> > that and you should see that "PDF Annotation" is checked.  The last item
> > in the submenu is "Field Properties", which is where all the magic
> > happens.
>
> Unfortunately that doesn't happen with 1.3.5 . I get just the regular stuff
> found with a text frame. 1.3.5.

Check out from SVN in about 15 mins to see if you now have what you were 
missing.

> With 1.3.3.10 I get some pdf options but there are fewer pdf field types to
> choose from.

I think you'll find that its just better presented in 1.3.5

Craig





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