On 12/13/2014 10:35 AM, John Culleton wrote: > Today to get word wraparound of a graphic element > requires the following steps: > ----------------------------------- > 1. Put the graphic element on a layer higher than > the text layer. > 2. Make sure the layer containing the graphic has > focus. > 3. Make sure the graphic element has focus. > 4. Hit the F2 key. > 5. On the popup window select "use contour line" > 6. In the upper right hand corner select "Edit" > 7. On the next popup window select "Edit Contour > Line" > 8. (Optional) move the corners of the graphic > around. > 9.Select "End editing" > 10. Check to make sure that the text actually > flows around the graphic. > ------------------------ > If your book has multiple graphics this sequence > becomes a bore. I recommend that the default > value of any graphic frame be to have > text on underlying layers flow around the > superimposed graphic frame. For those who > want to use other configurations steps 2. > through 10. would still be available. But for the > usual case text wraparound using the contour line > would be the default. If there was no underlying > text no harm would be done. > > For those of us who insert multiple graphic > frames, and who may want to move them around > etc. for various layout alternatives > the default of text wraparound would be a great > time saver. No harm would be done for those who > want to select different options.
I guess my suggestion would be to have this as an item in the context menu - Text Flow Around Frame > Use Frame Shape/Use Bounding Box/Use Contour Line (submenu options). If so, it should be there for all objects, not just image frames. In the meantime, you can make a very short script that uses the command textFlowMode(). The meat of it would be: framename = scribus.getSelectedObject() scribus.textFlowMode(framename, 2) # state of 2 selects for flow around contour line Greg Greg
