Am Dienstag, 17. Juli 2007 19:43 schrieb John Jason Jordan: > Rank n00b here, Scribus 1.3.3.8 on Feisty amd64. > > I want text in columns. The text was written in OOo Writer. I created a > text frame in Scribus, copied and pasted the text from Writer, fixed > the styles, and it looks OK. In the top menu I see View > Show Text > Frame Columns. I checked it, but I can't find any place to create the > columns in the text frame. I poked everywhere, and I read the > documentation, but how to create columns in text frames eludes me.
Columns are set in the shape tab of the Properties Palette. > > So I'm thinking, "maybe columns in a text frame are not yet > implemented. Fine, I'll just create additional frames and link them." > The text in the first frame is overset, so I created another text frame > to the right of it and linked the two frames. There is now a little > arrow showing the link from the first frame to the second, but the > overset text from the first frame does not flow into the second frame. > Again, I poked all over, but I can't find any way to get the text to > flow into the second frame. Hmm, are you using 1.3.4? Maybe you ran into a bug specific to this version. > Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong, or if there is a better way > to do what I want? Well, in general, I advise you to make heavy use of our Wiki. Many of the questions you ask here are already answered there ;) HTH Christoph
