> and i'm not sure that -- as soon as you leave the comfort zone of the > rectangular frame -- the form of the shape has any consequences on the > calculation... you just have to calculate it correctly, which is not > trivial. > > ciao > a.l.e > > p.s.: i'm all for removing half baked features that are hard to use > and not really essential to scribus... but i'm really in > the minority here...
Fascinating exchange all this. In about 1993 or 1994 I was still refusing to move our personal newsletters from a typewriter to those early computers. Because, quoting myself from memory "we could not even make text flow sideways around (not inside) the shape of a cartoon cow. On our typewriter we managed to pull many stunts, maybe not pretty but our personal style. These days we can. Count your blessings. People who leave the comfort zones and who use skewed text (I cannot even spell that), can also learn those workarounds, like the one Greg worked out and shared. There should be a health warning, for beginners, not to try Scribus without this mailing-list... The fact that I can now use almost any shape and even turn it into a text frame is awesome. And each user will have different ideas what an aesthetic test-distance should be, very much depending on context, colours etc. So in summary, it is always somewhat difficult to find out how to do "exotic" things in Scribus or to even find where certain things are hidden. But in the last few years we have never hit any "cannot do with Scribus" for our humble publications. Nod to the developers. chos By the way, I finally had some time to finish the export-as-bitmap script late last night for our production machine. Seems the syntax to handle file names or rather to save to relative paths and file names is somewhat different between Windows and Linux. It also finally turned into two separate scripts for colour and b/w output, but working fine and directly accessible for my team by Scribus-menu. Scribus is getting better for us each year. The team will love this time saver and can focus more on layout and design for our proverbs. More subscribers each week. fwiw Martin
