[scribus] Problem with "first line offset"

Gregory Pittman gpittman at iglou.com
Mon Jan 7 23:29:59 UTC 2019


On 1/7/19 5:53 PM, pezcurrel wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a problem with "first line offset": it defaults to "maximum
> ascent" for new text frames; I need to set it to "font ascent" for all
> the text frames in a long document, but I can do it only one text
> frame by one.
> It would be great if it was possible to set it for all the selected
> text frames :)

HI,

I think we've had this question before. There are two basic workarounds.

The first would be the brute force way of editing the .sla file. There is a variable named FLOP, that would be FLOP="0" for Maximum ascent, or FLOP="1" for Font ascent. So you could just edit all of these in the file with a text editor.

The other way, which is the one I would probably use, would be to copy-paste an empty frame which has the right setting for first line offset. Even better might be to send a text frame with the right setting to the Scrapbook. If you right-click the item in the Scrapbook, one of the choices is Paste to Page, which puts the frame on the currently selected Page.

Greg




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