Features and questions

[Dug Falby]

Hi all,

I've been using OG for years now and have been meaning to ask about a
few behaviours that I've never been able to work out. Are these
missing features or have I missed something (likely).

1. When I option-drag a bunch of selected objects, the shift key
doesn't constrain movement. I have to group the objects before
dragging for shift to do its thing

2. I set the page size to a printer page size. I set the canvas to be
multiples of that page. I save the doc. When I reopen the doc, the
page size is gone. I can't remember the number of times I've moved
objects around only to realise I was looking at the wrong size of
canvas.

3. Save document and send to colleague. She opens the doc and all the
diagrams are messed up by type re-formatting and rewrapping. It would
be great to have a font-checking mechanism such as Illustrator and
Photoshop have (font matching or search, buffered vector data to allow
read only objects if font missing etc.)

4. Related to question 3. is their a "create outlines" function hidden
in there somewhere (great for emergencies when you can't figure out
which of the eighteen helveticas your co-worker should be loading but
don't want to export a PDF - say, because she needs to edit the shapes
without changing the text).

5. Another type-handling question. Objects shift position when you
select text in a box. It's not a big shift, but if you have lots of
type (particularly long type like a list of notes) this shift is
enough to make positioning objects difficult.

6. Releasing master objects. In Quark I set a text box on a master
page and the on every page that uses that master I get a text box in
the right place, with all the styling info ready to go. I can simply
start typing in the box. In InDesign it's a little different, I style
and position the master canvas object and then, on each page where I
want to put text in the box I need to release the master object with a
shift-apple-click. Either one of these would be fine as I haven't
worked out how to put a grid of editable text on each canvas without
having to cut-and-past a zillion times.

Finally, is OG5 going to be Leopard-only? I'm stuck waiting for the
new 12" powerbook so find myself stuck in 10.4 for at least the next
six months...

Thanks :-)
Dug

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