P E R F E C T Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you so much, Jean-Paul
PS for the developers: it would be very nice to have 3 choices for the Outline possibilities 1) Inner (actual way), 2) Outside (Greg solution), 3) Centered (obtained after convert text to outline) **************** Jean-Paul Gendner Site : f5bu.fr -----Message d'origine----- De?: Gregory Pittman [mailto:gpittman at iglou.com] Envoy??: lundi 18 ao?t 2014 02:25 ??: Scribus User Mailing List Objet?: Re: [scribus] Characters outline On 08/17/2014 07:34 PM, Gregory Pittman wrote: > On 08/17/2014 10:39 AM, Jean-Paul GENDNER wrote: >> The size of the text is limited by the area availlable in the >> picture. What I do is I use a "Black" (thicker as Bold) font. >> >> > It occurs to me that a workaround here is to make your text with its > outline. > Next, make a copy of the text frame at the same XPos, YPos > coordinates. For this frame use no background, and no outline. > What this should do is cover up the part of the outline that is inside > the glyph margins, showing only the outside part of the outline. > I've made a wiki page to illustrate this, since others may have the same question. http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Outlining_fonts Greg ___ Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net Edit your options or unsubscribe: http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus See also: http://wiki.scribus.net http://forums.scribus.net
