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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0016840 | Scribus | Usability | public | 2022-09-12 13:45 | 2022-09-14 17:15 |
| Reporter | Jon_J | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | major | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | new | Resolution | open | ||
| Product Version | 1.5.8 | ||||
| Summary | 0016840: Story editor has major usability issues | ||||
| Description | The story editor has several anti-features that make it difficult to use for real work. 1. When you make changes to font, font size, etc, the changes are not immediately reflected in the document view, so you can't see the graphical effects of the changes you're making as you're making them. You have to close the story editor to update the document view, then re-open the story editor to tweak the setting, close the story editor to see the effect of the tweak, wash, rinse, repeat. This is much too clunky to be usable. The doc view needs to be updated in real time, or at least there needs to be a button that updates the doc without closing the story editor. 2. While the horizontal spacing and stretch controls were retained, the vertical ones were removed. These controls need to be in the story editor, not elsewhere (if indeed they even exist elsewhere, I'm not sure they do). It is very common to need to fiddle around with both the font size and the spacing and stretch controls simultaneously, until you achieve the look you want, when working on graphic-centric projects like art books or posters. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Patch | No | ||||
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1.5.8 allows editing Text (Font, Size, set Styles, change advanced Font-Settings) directly in the text frame. I usually don't even use the Story-Editor at all. |
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>> 1. When you make changes to font, font size, etc, the changes are not immediately reflected in the document view This is expected behavior: reflecting all changes immediately in the view would make text editor too slow with long texts. >> 2. While the horizontal spacing and stretch controls were retained, the vertical ones were removed. These controls need to be in the story editor, not elsewhere (if indeed they even exist elsewhere, I'm not sure they do). It is very common to need to fiddle around with both the font size and the spacing and stretch controls simultaneously, until you achieve the look you want, when working on graphic-centric projects like art books or posters. Not sure this would be very useful to have vertical controls in text editor : the font used in the story editor is usually different from the font in the view, so it would be difficult to play with these controls and have a matching result between the story editor and the view. |
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A part of this could be considered pilot error. I didn't realize that the font properties I was used to seeing in 1.4.8 have been moved from Properties to Content Properties. I mistakenly believed that the Story Editor is the new way to edit all text. Actually, I don't need the Story Editor at all. I can open the content properties window, and everything behaves as it used to behave in 1.4.8. (Thx for the tip, Luna). I'm not really sure what the purpose of the Story Editor is at all, and I get that updating the Document View in real-time could bog things down. Still, it might be useful to have two separate buttons on the Story Editor: one that updates the Doc, and another that closes the Story Editor. Right now, both functions are done by the same button, so the only way to update the Doc is by closing the Story Editor, But this is perhaps low priority, since the Story Editor isn't needed for fiddling with the font. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2022-09-12 13:45 | Jon_J | New Issue | |
| 2022-09-13 15:32 | Luna Nightshade | Note Added: 0049759 | |
| 2022-09-13 22:51 | jghali | Note Added: 0049760 | |
| 2022-09-14 17:15 | Jon_J | Note Added: 0049763 |
