Am Donnerstag, 28. Juni 2007 18:33 schrieb Femke Snelting: > Louis Desjardins wrote: > > Femke Snelting a ?crit : > >> Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > >> > Am Donnerstag, 28. Juni 2007 16:39 schrieb Femke Snelting: > >> >> Dear list, > >> >> > >> >> We're in the middle of producing Mute Magazine 06 in Scribus 1.3.3.9 > >> >> (should be out next July!), and so far so good. :-) > >> >> > >> >> For this we need to import a few illustrations originally done in > >> >> Quark (I exported the document from Quark as pdf, and than converted > >> >> them to ps). All goes well besides one small detail: somehow in > >> >> Scribus all dotted lines have changed to dashed lines. > >> >> > >> >> I tried to simply re-create the dotted lines in Scribus, but no > >> >> luck: just dashed lines. > >> >> > >> >> So... any ideas how to produce a dotted line, other than typing > >> >> ............... ? > >> >> > >> >> best! > >> > > >> > Hi Femke, > >> > > >> > heel makkelijk: > >> > > >> > Lijn invoegen, dan F2 (Eigenschappen) > Lijn > Lijntype. > >> > > >> > > >> > Groeten > >> > > >> > Christoph > >> > >> Vielen Dank Christoph! > >> > >> Sorry I was not clearer: I did try all kinds of line-variations and > >> endings, but end up with dashed lines any ways; the 'dotted' option > >> under 'type of line' just gives smaller dashes, but still no dots (same > >> issue in Inkscape by the way). > > > > Bonjour Femke, > > > > I guess this calls for a bug report. To my knowledge, very few comments > > on the line options came to the list. So yours might just be that it was > > not tested enough before. > > > > My workaround has so many drawbacks and is so akward that I am reluctant > > to tell it but nonetheless... You can use fill character and tabulator > > to achieve such a dotted line. It will work in some cases... > > > > Best to you too! > > > > Louis > > OK will file! I do like your solution though, but does not really work > for dotted circles, does it? ;-)
It does. Create the dots the way Louis described it, convert the circle to a b?zier curve, select both items, then use Item > Attach Text To Path HTH Christoph
