Dear Pierre-Luc and Dazzle, Thanks for your tips (both interesting and useful workarounds) -- happily dotting away here!
Femke Pierre-Luc Auclair wrote: > Hi Femke, glad to hear from you! > > The problem with Scribus is that it does not implement the dash-array in > a way accessible via the UI. I'm unsure as if it's available from > another file, but I already discussed it with the devs on IRC and they > are aware of it. > > There is a way to do it in Inkscape which is fairly easy (but you gotta > know it). > > First, create your line. Set your width then set the cap property to > round cap. > > Now open the XML Editor and locate the "stroke-dasharray" property from > the line style. Set it to 0, x. It is very important to have the first > number set to zero to create a perfect circle, the second will be the > gap size in pixels. To have it in points or another unit, insert say 0, > 8pt and when you press set it will convert pt to px automatically. I > know this is not exactly what you'd like but at least it works. > > You can have up to 11 numbers in this array to keep them PostScript > compatible. Inkscape will draw up to 64, if you wanna go the raster way. > > Hope this helps! > > Pierre-Luc > > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus >
