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0017387ScribusTablespublic2025-01-26 16:54
Reporterdexterity Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityhave not tried
Status newResolutionopen 
PlatformIntel MacOSMacOSOS Version12.7.6
Product Version1.6.3 
Summary0017387: Table design is difficult.
DescriptionFirst of: Love your product!

Suggestion on how to make my experience better would be particularly tables. The view is a but confusing with three lines around cell. It makes it very difficult to see what the table is actually going to look like without exporting to pdf. And the handling of lines is a little difficult to figure out. And finally it's rather time consuming to set paragraph styles. So my suggestions would be along the lines of:

1. Make it default to display only the actual lines of the table, and optional to show all three lines.
2. Make the line editor a little more like excel, where you select whether a line should be there or not, and then the design of the line independent from that. It feels a little clumsy and difficult to manage with the current control design.
3. Close the gaps in the cell lines. (See attached screen shot.)
4. Add positioning to cell style. So I can design the exact placement of text into a cell. The space between the cell lines and the text is what I mean here.
5. Auto adjust cell sizes to fit text as default.
6. Make it so the paragraph style can be chosen when multiple cells are selected, so I don't have to apply a style to individual cells one at the time.

I experience quite a few odd behaviours when working with tables. Perhaps the whole tables function could use a little general attention and love?
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cbradney

2025-01-26 16:54

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Yes, we know, tables needs lots of work. For a future version.

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