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 > >
