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#81
General Discussion / Re: Plus Minus on Numpad Not W...
Last post by SirMix - October 19, 2024, 10:35:31 AM
Somehow that information was never told me. :o
I was happy enough to just use the plus/minus on numpad with my thumb.
#82
Beginner Talk / Re: I Cannot Turn Off Snapping
Last post by BN_Dev - October 18, 2024, 08:22:25 PM
Go to View -> Grids & Guides -> * and then them both on. Then go to View -> Text Frames -> Show Baseline Grid and turn that on.  See if your snapping matches any of those things.

Check you have definitely disabled everything in Page -> Snap to *

Is your snapping occurring in a particular document?  Does it happen in an entirely new document?
#83
General Discussion / Re: Looking for Advice on Usin...
Last post by Joop - October 18, 2024, 07:42:12 PM
I don't know if it is a big table, which is not wise. Big tables are always difficult to read for your  "customers". I had a table in LibreOffice Calc, it was 5x5 and I made a 5x5 table in Scribus and copied the cells one by one to Scribus. Doing it in one time is not understood by Scribus, after all its only  a make-up program. If you copy cell by cell you have also the advantage that you can do everything with that cell, even things which are not possible in Calc (or Excel for that matter). So, if you want to  publish a table say 30x20, forget it, unless you have to publish for science or so, those readers are  used to that kind of formats, but if you have seen science publications, its not that fancy make-up and widely spaced lines of text.   
#84
Beginner Talk / I Cannot Turn Off Snapping
Last post by Rick444 - October 18, 2024, 05:37:26 PM
I do not have any snapping enable but items are still snapping to what I think is the grid. Am I missing something in the setting that needs to be disabled? 
#85
General Discussion / Re: Plus Minus on Numpad Not W...
Last post by AdmFubar - October 18, 2024, 03:57:15 AM
CTRL+ scrollwheel is pretty standard in all operating systems for zooming in and out a page in most programs.
#86
General Discussion / Re: Plus Minus on Numpad Not W...
Last post by SirMix - October 18, 2024, 01:48:58 AM
Thank you. Did not know about the Ctrl+scrollwheel.
#87
Beginner Talk / Re: notes
Last post by rogerty - October 17, 2024, 02:47:31 PM
Thank you for the answer and giving context about workflow and other software. I appreciate it.
#88
Beginner Talk / Re: notes
Last post by BN_Dev - October 17, 2024, 02:42:57 PM
Putting items on the pasteboard (or "scratch space" as it's called in Scribus) is not some hack, it's a fundamental workflow that is entirely normal and you SHOULD use it.  Every publication will drag items to and from it as they layout a page, and only the items that are on the page will make it in to the PDF.  Everything on the pasteboard is simply ignored.

A lot of working documents will be littered with eye-catching text frames of notes and reminders, content that still needs to be put in the layout, and so on.  This is the whole reason for it existing.

More professional tools have a mechanism to catch anything left on the pasteboard before export. QuarkXPress has job jacket rules to test for this; Scribus has a preflight check for "Check for items not on a page". Turn that on.

An alternative approach might be to create a new layer just for notes that can appear on the page itself, and make that layer non-printable.  But a lot of professionals don't want to make mistakes so enforcing an empty pasteboard before export means you definitely haven't missed anything.
#89
General Discussion / Re: Plus Minus on Numpad Not W...
Last post by BN_Dev - October 17, 2024, 02:29:39 PM
NumLock won't make a difference for the fix, the bug was that the input was being ignored entirely as it was coming from the numeric keypad. The patch I submitted removes that flag so the numeric keypad keys behave the same as regular keys.

But for the issue of efficient zooming, holding Ctrl and using the mouse scrollwheel seems to be the most efficient as your hands don't need to move. Or pinch and zoom on a trackpad?
#90
Beginner Talk / notes
Last post by rogerty - October 17, 2024, 02:04:55 PM
I want to type notes for me to remember.
The notes should not appear in the output pdf.
I found this way to do it: create a textframe outside the page in Scribus.

Question: Is there anything I should know about this method? Let me know if I shouldn't use it.