Maciej Hanski wrote: > Mark Smith napisa?(a): > >> I've seen instructions on how to create comic book dialogue balloons here: >> >> http://www.balloontales.com/tips/balloon/index.html >> http://www.balloontales.com/tips/tvshape/index.html >> >> But the examples are specific to Adobe Illustrator. >> >> Does anybody know if these same effects can be achieved in Scribus? >> > > You may try this: > -- Insert a shape (e.g. a circle) > -- Go to Properties Palette/Shape tab, choose "Edit shape..." > and start editing your shape > -- End editing > -- Right click on your shape/ Convert to/Text frame/Fill it > with text > -- Done (optionally send it to scrapbook for later reusage) > > I have done this (dialogue balloons) -- it was talking brain slices for a presentation. I would not waste time with Inkscape or whatever. What I found was that it seemed that it was easier to manipulate the shape when I started with one of the arrows -- might seem odd, but you end up needing to add a number of nodes to a circle, and since it's a circular shape, it takes more time than you would think to make a pointy shape -- I like the "classic" dialogue balloon with a mostly elliptical shape and then a V-shaped point toward the character that's speaking. It (for me) was easier to make roundness from an arrow keeping the point than it was to modify a circle by adding a pointy bump.
Greg Then once you're done, the beauty is the conversion to a text frame, modifying the border as needed, etc.
