[scribus] How to change the "Distance of text" for multiple text frames in one go?

[Owen]

On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:35:01 +0200
Marco Boeringa <marco at boeringa.demon.nl> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Just recently downloaded Scribus to give it a try. Since I was not
> yet familiar with DTP, the user interface and concepts were confusing
> at first. However, with help of some good tutorials and documentation
> on the internet, things have become clear and I managed to create a
> proper document using styles and a home made template.
> 
> However, I now ran into a serious issue. I used the Calendar Wizard
> in Scribus, that creates a tables like layout of text frames for all
> the dates. So far fine, and I easily managed to tweak the look and
> placement using magnetic lines and all the property settings.
> 
> However, since I also wanted to change the "Distance of Text"
> settings (Top, Left etc.) of the Shape tab of a Text Frame, I thought
> I could simply do this like I had done with all other formatting:
> select multiple frames, enter the desired values, and ready...
> 
> Well, not so! While I can change things like font style, color etc.
> of multiple selected frames at once, the "Distance of Text" settings
> are only applied to the first selected text frame...
> 
> Is this a known bug in Scribus 1.3.3.13, or do I have an issue with
> my installation? And if it is a bug, is it stilll present in 1.3.5,
> and if not, do users recommend upgrading considering the beta status
> of 1.3.5?
> 
> I am running the latests stable release (1.3.3.13), so not the
> Release Candidate 3 of version 1.3.5. Considering all the warnings
> about ongoing changes in the fileformat of the beta version, I
> thought it wise to stick with the latest "stable" release for the
> time being, especially to try it out.
> 
> Thanks for any insights and suggestions of how to change these 
> "Top/Left/Bottom/Right" distances of text frames in batch, if at all 
> possible.






Hi,


Perhaps you could look at the script, CalendarWizard.py and it maybe
possible to do some adjustment there.

# grep marg CalendarWizard.py provides 20 odd lines of output, try
fiddling there (making a backup before you do so)

Anyway, just what is you aim, to produce a calendar? If so there other
options, pcal is a neat program that provides a postscript output ready
for importation into Scribus.



Owen