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Title: Trouble wrapping text around image
Post by: 2handband on March 13, 2011, 02:36:15 AM
Sigh... yeah, it's me again. I tried wrapping text around an image using this tutorial:

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/how-do-i-wrap-text-around-an-image-in-scribus/203

and ran into two problems. First, the text right below the image is spaced funny. Second, when I tried to move the contour line it simply re-sized the image frame. Both issuse show up nicely in the following screen shot:

http://genek.net/LinuxAdventures/scribus_1.html
Title: Re: Trouble wrapping text around image
Post by: pixeldust on March 14, 2011, 06:27:55 AM
Quote from: 2handband on March 13, 2011, 02:36:15 AM
Sigh... yeah, it's me again. I tried wrapping text around an image using this tutorial:

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/how-do-i-wrap-text-around-an-image-in-scribus/203

and ran into two problems. First, the text right below the image is spaced funny. Second, when I tried to move the contour line it simply re-sized the image frame. Both issuse show up nicely in the following screen shot:

http://genek.net/LinuxAdventures/scribus_1.html

First issue: it looks like you need to change your text alignment - in your properties window under text. I don't really understand your second issue, not sure what you're trying to do or what you mean by contour line.
Title: Re: Trouble wrapping text around image
Post by: cezaryece on March 14, 2011, 09:44:32 AM
1. check if there is not breakline inserted at end of wrong justified line and/or move or stretch image vertically
2. are you sure you select "edit contour line"? contour line is draw in blue - I dont see in you screenshot that you are in contour line edit mode
Title: Re: Trouble wrapping text around image
Post by: 2handband on March 14, 2011, 02:45:11 PM
That's because i took the screenshot after closing the edit menu... my fault. Here's a new one; you can see that i pulled the line to the left, but the text stayed where it was.
Title: Re: Trouble wrapping text around image
Post by: Meho R. on March 14, 2011, 09:08:42 PM
It is possible that you failed to change the contour line, but were changing shape of the image frame instead.

Take a look at the screenshot below: "Use Contour Line" is used for text wrapping for all figures, but, during shape editing in case 1 (top right), I haven't selected "Edit Contour Line" in editing dialog, so nothing actually happens (same as in your screenshot). The reason is simple: I actually changed shape of the image frame, not the contour line which remains the same. Notice the two gray lines: one is full and it shows shape of the frame, while the other is dashed and it shows contour line.
In case 2 (bottom right) "Edit Contour Line" was selected in editing dialog, so text get wrapped as expected.

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