The way I do it for a poetry magazine is to draw a shape, do the text flow round that, then put the text frame inside. I can easily do birders and fill either frame with a colour. Apologies for this appearing with all the other text and probably above. My phone won't allow any other way.
Nicki Griffin On 27 Jun 2015 5:21 pm, John Culleton <John at wexfordpress.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 19:50:31 -0400 > Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote: > > > On 06/25/2015 07:37 PM, John Culleton wrote: > > > This has been discussed before I am sure, but > > > I can't find the magic formula. I want text > > > to flow around another text frame. I got that > > > to work. But T want a little offset so that > > > when the text flows it doesn't run up right > > > next to the other frame. Step by step what do > > > I need to do? > > > > > There are two approaches, and you may want to > > use a bit of both. > > > > The first, as mentioned is to simply set the > > "Distances" for the frame that inside or being > > flowed around. This can be problematic if the > > frame is small, and be quite ugly. > > > > The other is to decide what you flow around. > > The default of course is the frame, but you can > > choose to flow around the contour line, which > > is under Shape > Text Flows Around Frame > Use > > Contour Line. > > > > Then, edit the frame (again under Shape), and > > check Edit Contour Line. Note that amongst the > > buttons are a couple which expand the Contour > > Line by a certain percentage all around or a > > certain number of points all around. > > > > Greg > > > > > > > > I left out some important details. In this > project in order to match previous work the > inserted text frame has a light gray background > and rounded corners. Also my shaky old hands > won't allow me to manipulate a contour line with > any success. > > So I took a different path entirely. For each > such frame I drew a slightly larger text frame > over the top of the existing one. I set it to > have text flow around it. Then I went to the Item > menu. selected "level", and lowered the blank > frame in relation with the real text frame. > > It works and it is not too difficult. > > > -- > John Culleton > Wexford Press > Book layout, typesetting and Indexing > Free list of books for self-publishers: > http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html > > ___ > 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
