Gregory Pittman wrote: > 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. >
Here is a scrapbook with a balloon that I saved. It's saved as a shape. Again, the beauty of this internal Scribus approach is that you can edit this in Scribus and convert to a text frame. Greg -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: balloon2.sce Url: http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20060715/a1a85520/attachment.ksh
