On Jan 15, 2008 11:40 PM, Maximilian Albert de> wrote:
I can imagine one day Inkscape will have a Guides Management dialog similar to Scribus's one that has exactly the feature Maximilian has implemented, only more flixible :)
Since I'm not familiar with Scribus (yet), would you mind outlining in a few words what this dialog does? Alternatively you could file a RFE in Launchpad (if there isn't one yet).
Sure thing :)
Basically it's a floating palette with three tabs:
The first tab is all about fast editing of each horizontal/vertical guides (Scribus has no angled guides, yet), adding new and deleting existing ones. It's just two listboxes, each has an add/delete set of buttons.
The second tab is about creating new guides in rows/columns with relation to either page, margins or selection (which is why it's a floating palette ;-)). Say, you have a text frame and you want 5 vertical and 3 horizontal guides from it. You select the frame, fire up the Guides Manager, define amount of guides in each dimension and justy press Enter. You can optionally create gaps between guides which will, in fact, double defined amount of guides.
The third tab provides two buttons to delete all guides from current page and all pages.
Alexandre