> Hi, > > I know this has to be obvious if I can find the right place to look, > but I'm > not finding it in the obvious places. I'm putting a 60 point headline > across > a 5' wide poster. I put the text frame there. I copy in the text, > adjust the > font for type and size. Scribus spaces the lines so the type badly > overlaps. > > In Document Setup I have automatic line spacing set at 20% - which has > to be > line height plus that, right? Where do I go to adjust the line spacing > here?
Properties->Text->Set to Fixed Line spacing and adjust to suit (probably 65 pt will do you) > Also, why am I seeing only 12 color choices for text? Scribus can't > really > be this incapable, is it? How do I surface the capabilities so I can > use > them. I've done a lot of PageMaker and Quark work in years past, and > as I > said have used Scribus before too ... is the 1.4.0 version just trash? > Do I > need to build it custom to get it to have a normal depth of DTP > features? > I'm running the Scribus-provided Ubuntu version here. Your choices are; 1. Add a color to the palette, Edit->Colours->New or 2. Start Scribus, and before you open a document, Edit->Colors and select from one of the many palettes, I suspect you have the simple palette Also not there is a Scribus manual, Help->Manual. If it is not there, check your Synaptic, search scrobus and look for the doco -- Owen
