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#Scribus line spacing how to

Go to Properties > Text > Columns and Text Distances, and adjust the distances as needed. If you are going to use a border for your frame as you see here, you will want to add some space above and to the left of the text inside the frame. If you wish you can repeat clicking to get the effect you need, then click End Editing. The button shows a rectangle with arrows pointing outward. Now click the button to increase the size of the contour line – the tooltip for the button says, Enlarge the Size of the Path by shown %.Adjust the spinbox with the percentage (10% here), to your desired amount of change in size.Select Edit Contour Line at the bottom of the dialog.You should then see blue dots appear at the corners to mark the Nodes. The number beside the arrows indicates the level of the selected object, 1 being the lowest level.īy default, text flow would be immediately against the edge of the image or text frame, but in most cases you will want some "breathing room", such as you see in the example page above. The left up and down arrows shift by one level, the right arrows either all the way to the top or to the bottom.

#Scribus line spacing how to

Here we see in this small part of the XYZ tab of Properties how to adjust the level of an object. Since it's important to apply text flow to a frame on a higher level, it's important to remember that as you add frames, they are placed on a level above the last frame created. Not only must the path exist, but it must have been activated in the Extended Properties of the image.

Use Image Clip Path uses the clipping path of an image, when one exists.

Use Contour Line uses an editable shape which initially is the same as the frame shape.

Use Bounding Box will be the same as the Frame Shape for an unrotated rectangle, but in the case of an irregular shape or rotated rectangle, the Bounding Box delimits the horizontal and vertical boundaries of all the elements of the object, including control points.

Use Frame Shape uses the boundaries of the frame you created in the object.

Now, in the Properties palette, select the Shape tab. Remember, this is applied to the object above the text which must flow around, so select that upper level object. What you find in these cases, is that the new frame is on top of text content, and what you really want is for the text to flow around the frame, which may have an irregular shape.Įxcept for special cases, text flow is applied to the object, image, text, or geometric shape, which is overlying the text – on some level above the text.

You wish to put the image inside the space where text already exists.

You may select some text, then place it in a separate frame for emphasis.

You may add a text frame to highlight some point.

If you wish to increase the dynamism of the layout, frames can be made to overlap: Thus, one can easily place text and images side-by-side.

This is what you want in most cases, and is well-adapted to creating a structured composition.

By default, frames in Scribus have a rectangular shape.