Formatting text

I am on my 4th Blurb book – the previous three were photo-intensive with litle text amd they came out fine.. But this one is text-intensive with photos and I am finding Booksmart to have several irritating habits when working with blocks of text, each around 500 words.

 In edit mode:

1. Selecting text is a hit or miss affair, sometimes it takes three or four tries to select portions.

2. Every time I select some text, Booksmart jumps up in size, meaning I have to reduce it down again…very irritating.

3. Cursor placement is also arbitary, it seems to have a will of its own.

4. Sometimes I get the warning yellow gizmo ( text exceeds size…) sometimes I don’t on the same block of text. I am assuming if it proofs out Ok my text won’t get clipped so I’m ignoring those warnings.

5. On an unrelated matter, I rename my books but when I go back into Booksmart, the rnames have disappeared and I have to do it all over again. Maybe I’ll try a manual save and see if that works

Please improve text formatting in the next version!

Mark 

Mark, I can help with No.2 and sympathise with the others.

If you go to the View menu, you will see as the last item Auto-Zoom For Text Input, just uncheck that.

I do find that I have to click anywhere in a text box to activate it, then click in the position I want the cursor to sit or the words to be highlighted. The first click in the position you’d like the cursor certainly doesn’t work.

......Tony

Mark:I copy all the text I put in Blurb books in MS Word. That way, should I “lose” the text in Blurb I still have a copy. Rich