Gregory Pittman wrote: > John Jason Jordan wrote: >> I have Scribus 1.3.3.12 on Hardy x86_64. >> Is it possible to apply a frame border to only one edge of the frame? >> > There is a trick you can try for this. > > Make a table with 2 cells. If you double-click to highlight one of the > cells, you should see a list appear in Properties > Line, where you > can choose which sides of the cell frame to show as a border. You have > to assign the border a color in Color tab, of course. You should also > be able to independently resize this cell, minimizing the other cell, > which you won't be using. It's a little glitchy, so you may have to > play around with it a bit to get it to work as I describe here. The > important thing is double-clicking on the cell you want to have this > feature, and the sign you are in the right mode is that this list > appears in the Line tab. > > You would think that you might be able to create a one-celled table to > do this, but at least in my hands I can't get it to work to show the > list in the Line tab. > > Also note that the default cell is a text frame, but you can convert > to an image frame. I note that in this case, while you can adjust > image to frame, the Context menu shows no Adjust frame to image option. And while we're at it, here are other interesting tricks:
Another way of accomplishing this, and leads to further variations, is by making this adjacent cell very thin, and changing its fill color, *and* you can give this cell a single border. What this allows for is a frame that has borders of different colors and line styles, if you wish -- something not possible with a regular text frame. Greg
