hi stephan
First off; is v1.5.8 stable or development (beta)?
i wouldn't call it
'beta', but it is a development version.
as i can't use 1.4.x on a recent macOS, i'm on 1.5.x for some time now; actually 1.5.8. it's pretty much stable.
- I had prepared image frames with dimensions 30x40mm. When I use Acquire image to insert a photo which has 9:16 ratio, I end up with the photo fitting the height of the frame. I could not find a way to to have the image size to the width of the frame and thus cropping some of its height. Hopefully this is a no-brainer.
unfortunately there is no automatic cropping to fill the frame. in
'document setup' → 'item tools' you can select between 'scaled to fit the frame' (uncropped) or a 'scaling factor'.
depending on your images an automatic crop function would crop the wrong part of the image anyway. if you always need the full width of the image, you could make your image frames too high by default and place a guide where the final frame hight should be. with this setting, the image would be scaled to the width. you could then select
'free scale' in the
'image properties' and adjust the hight manually.
if all your images have the same resolution, it would be easier to set a fixed scale factor in
'document setup' → 'item tools' in the first place.
- In my template document I had prepared paragraph styles for standard, some headings and title. I was not able to give the heading styles a different font color than black. Possibly a no-brainer too
you'll find the color selector in the style manager ('f3' in scribus 1.4, 'f4' in 1.5) at the bottom of the
'character style' tab.
I probably need to further watch some instruction videos. Which would you advize?
i don't know any scribus video tutorials.
but take a look at
this manual…
utnik