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Guides_n_Grids_Management.png (25,210 bytes) |
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You can already change how guides and margin are drawn relative to content in File > Document Setup > Guides > Placement |
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I know that and don't miss any fundamental functionality in relation to grids and guides. Please let me explain: My prosposal refers more to the comparatively scattered settings, as I wrote above. I would prefer a more compact accessibility to them in a more "all-in-one-place" way and with fewer clicks to get what you want. The idea to adapt the "Layers"panel for the "Grid an Guides"-UI came from the recogniton, that one can simulate them anyway by adding a seperate Layer for that purpose, filled with any kind of selfmade grid or selfmade guidelines, but minus the snap-functionalty and minus all the related helpfull tools, that are already implemented in scribus, like the guidelines-manager. In my opinion "Layers" and "Grids" and "Guidelines" are very much similar, as they all are ultimately layers, the latters only with a special purpose and most of the time without the need to be printed. So, if they are so similar, why not have a similar UI and operation for them? |
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I made another mockup for demonstration purposes ... Guides_n_Grids_Management_No3.png (36,899 bytes) |
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I made a scribus document for demonstration porpuses (Made with 1.5.3.svn, Windows-Version) Just play around with it, to get a impression of my idea. The sla contains 5 layers: Content Images Content Text --------- Guides horizontal* Columns vertical 6* Columns vertical 12* * These are normal layers filled with different kinds of auxiliary-lines that I made by hand using a calculator and the "distribute an align"-tool. advantages: ------------ One can have more than one layer with different auxiliary-line setups at once One can enable/disable each auxiliary layer by itself One can reorder the auxiliary layers disadvantages: ------------- One has to create the content of the auxiliary layers by hand The content of the auxiliary layers always refers only to one certain page that it's drawn on What I would like to have: -------------------------- The possibility -to create different kind of layers, "Content-Layers" and "Auxiliary-Layers" from within the layer-panel -to create the content on the Auxiliary-Layers with the supoort of the build-in scribus-tools (like Guides Manager) from within the layer-panel -to edit the content on the Auxiliary-Layers with the supoort of the build-in scribus-tools (like Guides Manager) from within the layer-panel -to change the color of the auxiliary-lines from within the layer-panel The content of the Auxiliary-Layers should be applied to all pages oft the document. |
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i have a wish: do not mix guides and grids. keep them as far apart from each other as possible. please. |
- Anonymous
