Thank you Christopher, Gregory and Louis. You answered both of my questions. I tried the "distance to text" property and it does look like I can use it to center the text content.
Landon On 1/30/06, Christoph Sch?fer <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de> wrote: > Hi Landon, > > Am Montag, 30. Januar 2006 18:19 schrieb Louis Desjardins: > > Redefined Horizons a ?crit : > > > I have to simple Scribus questions. I am a new user of Scribus and > > > Linux, so please bear with me. :] > > > > First of all, welcome to Scribus! > > > > > [1] Is there a way to wrap text along a line that is not at cardinal > > > directions? Is there a way to draw a shape like an irregular polygon > > > and then fit text within this shape? > > > > You can turn a shape into a text frame or an image frame. CTRL-click on > > it will get you a contextual menu. There you can Convert to > Text or > > Image frame. Once this is done, using the same contextual menu you can > > now Get Text (+ other options). > > In addition to what Louis wrote, you can also edit the shape of a text frame > directly through the properties palette: > > Select text frame > right click > properties palette > shape > edit shape. > > > > > > [2] Is there a way to align text vertically in the text box that contains > > > it? > > > > There is no automatic way (feature not implemented yet). But can > > determine the space between the text frame and the text in the > > Properties palette > Shape > Distance to text. > > > > HTH > > > > Louis > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Landon > > Cheers, > > Christoph > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus >
