On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 05:31:40PM -0400, Gregory Pittman wrote: > > To make it easier for people's eye to stay on the correct line, I am > > looking to create an effect where each line has an alternating background > > color; similar to the old green bar computer printer paper. > > > > I'm still a newbie with Scribus so I not sure how to create the effect. > > The booklet will have about 36 pages of US letter-size paper printed in > > landscape mode. > > > > I want to work it out so alternating background is a separate layer from > > the actual text. This way we don't have to rearrange the colored > > backgrounds when new information is added.
> I would suggest you consider making an image frame behind the text > frame. Use Inkscape or Gimp to create an image with the repetitive > horizontal bars, then save to some form of bitmap, so you can stretch > the image inside the frame to match the line height and frame width -- > that way you can vary the font and style without having to create a new > image. I'd also suggest to use the "Align to baseline grid" setting for the text style. This way, you can fine-tine the baseline grid to match the background exactly (enable displaying the baseline grid to get the alignment right). HTH, Tino.
