[scribus] Three questions and a suggestion

[Ian "Witty" Whitfield]

On 13/09/2011 14:00, Vladimir wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 16:56 +0200, Ian "Witty" Whitfield wrote:
> You can easily check if this is indeed place where links are lost by
> opening PDF in Adobe Reader before doing pdf2ps.
The 'links' work fine with either of my Readers when first converted to 
"Scribus PDF"
>> >  2) I've read about a Spell Checker that runs in Scribus - where can I
>> >  find this and how is it installed?
> Didn't need it - haven't found it!:)
Please tell us what it's called and where you found it!!!
> What about using character map application (both gnome and kde have
> them) for easy copy+paste. Second solution is to make an empty frame
> outside of page that contain characters you use a lot. Third, I haven't
> managed to make this working, yet it's suggested by official
> documentation, hit F12 and insert unicode hex value of desired glyph.
> Pay special attention on last paragraph.
> http://documentation.scribus.net/index.php/Special_Characters

Thanks I will look into this.
>> >  Last of all a suggestion - I tend to edit my document at 120% 'normal
>> >  view' but as soon as you go up or down this changes back to 100%.
> What do you mean by "going up or down"?
Go to a larger or smaller view of the document using the icons at the 
bottom left of the screen.
>> >  I have
>> >  seen people mention this before. Would it not be an idea to have
>> >  whatever you set as the view magnification to be the "base value" so
>> >  that you can look at the page bigger or smaller but when you return to
>> >  "normal view" it is still at whatever you set it to in the beginning??
> What did you do to define "beginning" value?
It is the % set in the 'Current Zoom" box - again bottom right of the 
screen.

Thanks a lot

Ian Whitfield
Pretoria RSA

(I'm using Scribus 1.4.0 rc5 on Linux Mint 10 KDE)