On 07/07/2011 08:16 PM, Adrienne Carmack wrote: >> >> >> >> On 07/07/2011 06:43 PM, Adrienne Carmack wrote: >>> I'm completely new to desktop publishing but was actually able to >>> produce a pretty good document for my first try! I have a couple of >>> questions that I've not been able to find the answers to. >>> >>> 1. As I was using story editor to apply styles, while clicking between >>> that and my original word processing document, when I clicked back >>> into story editor, it kept jumping back to the top of it. I had to >>> scroll back down to where I was virtually every time. Is there a >>> secret of where to click in story editor to keep it from jumping back >>> to the top? >>> >> Not that I know of. >> >>> 2. How do you anchor text boxes or image boxes to text? >> >> Not sure what you mean by anchoring... >> >> Greg >> > > This is what I mean by anchoring: > http://help.adobe.com/en_US/InDesign/6.0/WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6c43a.html > It's pretty easy to do in Open Office, too. Basically so your image/text box > is locked with the text. So if you move the text, the boxes move with it. > In Scribus this is called in inline graphic. Essentially, you can copy any image frame, then insert it like text into a text frame. Select an image frame with image, press Ctrl+C. Then select text frame (you need to do this in Insert Contents mode -- double click on text frame, put the cursor where you want to insert the graphic you have copied), then select Edit > Paste or type Ctrl+V.
As far as tacking an image onto the edge of the text frame, in Scribus you would group the two frames -- select both, then Item > Group. Greg
