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On 23/04/11 21:14, Gordon Henderson wrote: > > And I have to say, watching her struggle to use it, I'm starting to > think that too - a seemingly simple task she showed me in Publisher - > inset some clip-art, resize it, move it into place - a doddle in > publisher, required that Scribus launch gimp to do the image > manipulation... What is wrong with "Properties">"Image" and pick the size you want? (it would be "F2" for Properties but I have that mapped to firing up a calculator. Pick the "Scale to frame size" option means you can resize by dragging the edges of the frame, no idea if you can make this the default as I don't use Scribus ;) Oh "File" "Preferences" "Tools" Pick "Image" and you can make "Scale to Frame Size" the default. I suspect Scribus has such an arcane default because it is trying to clone a different DTP package ;) Hard to please everyone all the time, especially with the same set of default settings. > So she's on the verge of spending Â120 on publisher... Unless there is > an alternative? Depends how much DTP she does, it may be cheaper to buy publisher than learn an alternative. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq