Am Sonntag, 1. Juli 2007 00:28 schrieb John Jason Jordan: > I'm just starting with Scribus, version 1.3.3.8 on Ubuntu Feisty amd64. > > For my first serious project I am doing a book cover. I need to place a > text frame, rotated, in the spine area. The page width is 12 inches and > the spine will be 1/2 inch, so I set guides at 5.75 inches and 6.25 > inches. I created a frame, typed the title into the frame, then rotated > it 270 degrees. I dragged it in between the guides, then used the mouse > to drag the width (originally height) of the frame so it is now 1/2 > inch, fitting neatly between the guides. > > So far, so good. But I need the text centered vertically in the frame. > I could kludge it by setting the inside margins for the frame, > experimenting until I got it close enough. But it sure would be a lot > faster, simpler, and more accurate if I could just set the properties > for the frame to "vertically centered text." I poked all over Scribus > and I looked through the wiki, but I can't find this feature. Does it > exist? If so, where'd y'all hide it?
It doesn't exist, but it's on the roadmap: http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/1.3.x_Roadmap Cheers Christoph
