Hi, I am using the tabs-way you described below as well. But it has a drwaback: right-aligned tab filler dopesn't aligned correctly. I submitted a bug report about it a few months ago. See http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=8304 But the bug is not corrected yet. Its really hard to make good looking forms with tabs.
Victor On 01.10.2009 1:00, laurin Mckinnon wrote: > I may be missing the point but what about using a (right hand) tab and > fill characters? (On 1.3.5 go text/distances/tabs.) At least then the > guide lines and text are locked together and everything is subject to > paragraph styles. Certainly much faster. > regards > Laurin > > On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 11:13 -0400, Timothy J Massey wrote: > >> Hello! >> >> I'm new to Scribus but not new to DTP. I'm trying to create your standard >> fill-in paper form. You know: >> >> Name; __________ >> Address: ________ >> Telephone: ______ >> >> etc. >> >> > From what I can tell, Scribus doesn't give me a lot of tools for making >> this work the way I would expect. >> >> At first, I created a separate text box for each label (Name: Address:, >> Telephone: in my example above). But then I found that I can't vertically >> align the text inside of a text box to the *bottom* of the text box! This >> causes no end of problems for me. How do I align the text and the lines >> next to the text? FWICT, I'm forced to do this purely by eye. I can't >> use any type of guide lines, because the *top* of the text is snapping to >> the guide line, and I'm not trying to draw a line at the top of the text, >> but at the *bottom*! >> >> This problem is made worse if I ever want to change the font size: the >> baseline of the text will be pushed *down*, because it's anchored at the >> *top*! If it were anchored at the bottom, it would merely push up, where >> I've got plenty of room. After all, I need to leave more vertical space >> for handwriting than I do for type... >> >> Enough ranting. My question: how do you set up your document so that you >> can create a document like I've described? Is there a technique that I've >> missed? >> >> Thank you very much for your help! >> >> Tim Massey >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> scribus mailing list >> scribus at lists.scribus.info >> http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > > >
