On Wednesday 15 March 2006 01:49, John R. Culleton wrote: > Building my first book cover in Scribus. So far the following > problems to be dealt with. > > 1. I don't find a way to establish a uniform background color > for the whole page. So as I create each block of text etc. I am > coloring them individually. Is there a way to just color the > whole page?
Put a layer with a coloured polygon covering the page. Page colour is not printed, although u can change it for display purposes. > 2. I need to rotate the text for the spine 90 degrees. I can do > it in Gimp, rotate there, and then import it as a graphic but > there should be a more direct way. Rotate your text frame on properties palette. > 3. I put a graphic on the front page. Now I want to put white > text over the top of it. I don't seem to be able to see the text > at all. I colored the background of the text block 0 opaque. > The text doesn't show whether I color it black or white. Is your text frame 1 or more levels above the image frame? Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 191 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20060315/7d2318d9/attachment.pgp
