When I tried to figure out what "selection" does in: Guide Manager > Column/Row> Selection.
It remains grayed out no matter what I try. I'm just trying to find useful and quick ways to grid out pages. I'm wondering if this function is a no longer working feature from previous versions waiting to get deleted, or if there is some way of getting it to work. I have no urgent project awaiting an answer here - just curiosity; I'm trying to become fluent with the rudiments.
I'm using 1.5.1 on Linux Mint. Very plain vanilla.
Thanks for reading this.
hi cgood
it looks like a bug in scribus 1.5.x – you shauld report it at bugs.scribus.net (https://bugs.scribus.net).
utnik
Reported. And in the process found a workaround. Someone else's "elderly" bug report got me trying all sorts of stuff and eventually finding several actions that would work.
If I move the selected frame, the "Selected" option becomes available. Not something every user might find.
It took me an hour of fiddling around to come up with a simple workaround. The common denominator was getting the system to recognize the selected frame by moving it, with the mouse. Keyboard moves did not work.