[Scribus] Background of Chars

[jon]

Hi Helge,

there's a font which might do what you want available for free here:
http://de.fontriver.com/font/bullet_balls_aoe/

jon

Am 27.03.2007 um 15:05 schrieb avox:

>
>
>
> Helge Hielscher-2 wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a text frame with gray background and an enumeration like  
>> this:
>> "? first item ? second item ? third item ? fourth something"
>> The problem is that the numbers are hardly readable even in bold.
>> Therefore I would like to have the numbers (U+2776 et.seqq.) white.
>>
>> All I could come up with is:
>> 1. set the backround of the textframe to none
>> 2. insert a new gray background polygon
>> 3. draw white polygon circles and put them behind the numbers
>> 4. adjust the position of the white cirles with every text change
>>
>> Is there a more efficient way to achieve the same?
>>
>
> I dont think so.  You could try to use a solid black circle-char,  
> change its
> textcolor to white and then try to overlay it with the wanted  
> circlenumber
> with negative tracking, but that's not much better.
>
> Or you could design little imageframes for the circles and paste  
> them as
> inline frames, but inline frames aren't that robust atm.
>
> Another idea would be to adjust the background to a lighter gray,  
> or use a
> gradient which has a lighter gray at  the center.
>
>
>
>> Would this be worth a
>> RFE?
>>
>
> Unfortuneately there's no information in a font about the "holes"  
> of glyphs,
> so IMHO it's impossible to find a general solution. The trick  
> "white circle
> overlayed with circlenumber" and "use inline imageframe" should  
> work, so you
> can file any bugs you find with that.
>
> HTH
>
> /Andreas
>
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