Resize text box without affecting relative position of contour lines.

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PastaShock

I'm working on a book where I need to place a text box inside a text box and there needs to be a 4 mm border around the text box inside the other one. Here is a picture of what I am trying to accomplish:



The way I did this is by using countour lines. But the issue I am having is I am re-using these two text boxes multiple times down the page, and sometimes I need to resize the small inner text box in the upper right corner. When I do that, the countour lines change and no longer maintain the 4 mm padding. Is there a way to resize the text box and maintain the 4 mm padding? Is there a better way to do this than contour lines?

PastaShock

Ok, I think I have a solution. I got rid of the contour lines and instead used column and text distances and set the right and bottom text distance to 4 mm. I don't know why I didn't think of this last night...

AdmFubar

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amair

I also face that "problem".

Where is that setting you mean with "column and text distances and set the right and bottom text distance to 4 mm"?
I only have this setting for text boxes and there it just sets the spacing from the text box border to the text.

Do I miss something?

AdmFubar

Make sure you have a text frame selected and press F3 if you cont have the content properties window open. Look for the columns and indentation section, you may  need to click to expand it doe the options. You can adjust "margins" inside a text frame from there.
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amair

Quote from: AdmFubar on November 21, 2025, 07:49:17 PMMake sure you have a text frame selected and press F3 if you cont have the content properties window open. Look for the columns and indentation section, you may  need to click to expand it doe the options. You can adjust "margins" inside a text frame from there.

Sorry, my bad! I missed you were talking about a text box in a text box. I meant image in text box. It would be great if there would also be an easy setting for that.

utnik

hi amair

you may store frames in different sizes (with the increased contour line) in the scrapbook and use them in your layout.
unfortunately you can't just resize them as scribus doesn't resize the offset in a sane way. it keeps the offset at the same percentage instead of the same absolute value. (as one would like to see...)
i filed a feature request a couple of years ago, but no one is interested in it – i got no reaction.

utnik

a.l.e

I hope that this

https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=1096

will solve the issue in most "simple" cases...
(I've now linked the two tickets)

utnik

hi ale

yes, that looks good – let's see if it makes in a release in the near future...

utnik

AdmFubar

Quote from: amair on November 22, 2025, 08:44:02 AM
Quote from: AdmFubar on November 21, 2025, 07:49:17 PMMake sure you have a text frame selected and press F3 if you cont have the content properties window open. Look for the columns and indentation section, you may  need to click to expand it doe the options. You can adjust "margins" inside a text frame from there.

Sorry, my bad! I missed you were talking about a text box in a text box. I meant image in text box. It would be great if there would also be an easy setting for that.
This will give a quick work around, just add a stroke to the text frame and make it transparent. It has some limits as the stroke is added inward and outward from the image edge. 
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