Tim Doty
From: United States
Registered: 2006-02-06
Posts: 2939
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On Thursday 28 September 2006 12:45, Dan wrote:
> Tim Doty wrote:
> >Open two views, view a page in one and its master page in the second.
> > Nudge an object on the master page and it moves to the other page.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Open a document
> > Open a second view
> > Try to navigate to a chapter in the first view by clicking on the page
> > number, etc. and it will update the second view
> >
> > Close the second view
> > First view unresponsive: clicks in the window are now ignored
> > Select "show window" for the first view from the menu and first view
> > becomes responsive.
> >
> > Exact steps aren't at hand, but it is at least close to:
> > Open two views
> > Copy an object in one view
> > Paste the object in the second view
> > Nudge the object with the arrow keys (possibly even click to drag) and
> > the object pops to the first view
> > To avoid this problem after pasting the object in the second view
> > click any where on the page in the second view, then controls work
> > normally.
>
> Hi Tim,
>
> I don't have access to Linux for i86, but under Linux PPC I can't
> reproduce these problems. Could it be theme related or ?? I could have
> sworn I had seen problems like this myself but I can't reproduce them
> with either of these.
Well, I can't guarantee it isn't, but I don't see how the theme would affect
this. I'll try to come up with some exact, minimal steps, but no promises on
when I'll get that done 
> > Oh yeah, showed off PgS's multi select in text this morning (off
> > topic, but does any other application allow that? I used it many times
> > this morning)
>
> Not that I know of. PageStream has so many unique features. The problem
> is that because they are unique you only get to use them in PageStream
> and I'm sure folks forget they exist unless they use PageStream on a
> regular basis.
I so rarely use any other DTP application... although I also have the
misfortune of doing a report each morning in MS Word. It is compiled from
various sources and we have all sorts of interaction issues. Some things are
pasted in from Firefox and some from Internet Explorer because it works
better that way in the respective cases. Weird, eh? (If anything you'd expect
it to always work better from IE than Firefox, but nope.)
My colleague (we switch off who does the report) was having fits with one
section which is two columns. Word insisted on putting column breaks in the
middle of tables (even though the tables are identically sized so it should
be a simple 2x2 arrangement). Times like that I wish I could use PgS but
unfortunately my colleague would not be able to handle the cut & paste issues
(it would have to be able to take a table copied from a browser and paste it
as a table that could be readily resized and edited -- flawlessly; typical
edits are select all text in the table and set the font/size, delete columns,
delete rows -- this is one area in which Word actually does a reasonable
job). That and I'd have to teach him how to use it ;^)
Tim Doty
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