[scribus] Wrapping text around picture behind text

[David Christian Berg]

On 31 Aug 2010, at 2:41 , David Christian Berg wrote:

I downloaded 1.3.8 (missing from the download section btw) but I cannot manage. For me text will still only flow around an image that is above it in z-order.

> So in 1.3.8 the text will flow around the image, even if the text is above the image? That would be good news :-)
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> On 31 Aug 2010, at 2:31 , Margaret and George McIntosh wrote:
> 
>>> On Aug 30, 2010, at 5:50 PM, David Christian Berg wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hey everybody!
>>>> 
>>>> I'm playing around with Scribus right now, checking it out again
>>> after a long time. I must say it has very much matured and seems to
>>> be quite usable for advanced desktop publishing.
>>>> However, I'm trying to figure out, how to wrap a text around an
>>> image, that is _behind_ the text. That is useful if you e.g. have
>>> light shades of grey in an image image that you want the text to be
>>> on top of (e.g. a slight shadow), but also a object that you want it
>>> to flow around. Whenever I put the Text in front of an image
>>> (regardless of it having wrapping set or not) it doesn't wrap.
>>>> I'm using Scribus 1.3.7 on a Mac.
>>>> 
>>>> Hope somebody can help me out.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> 
>>>> David
>> 
>> I tried this with V1.3.8 on Windows 7. 
>> I used an existing image which had text flowing around it.
>> I made a text frame in an open space, put some text in it and moved it over the image. 
>> It worked fine. 
>> 
>> George
>> 
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