[scribus] book cover spine

[Chas G]

Try typing either 90 or 270 degrees into the box for rotation. One of those
will give you type heading in the direction you desire.

On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 10:45 AM Cliffe Connor <cliffeconnor at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Greg,
> Thank you for getting back to me. I've found the properties palette and the
> rotation section. Can you tell me step by step what to do next? I can see
> that the text box can be rotated, but when I type into it, it still has the
> text going in the wrong direction!
> Help!
> Thanks,
> Cliffe
>
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 8:13 AM Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On 12/11/20 8:55 AM, Cliffe Connor wrote:
> > > Good Morning,
> > > I am creating a book cover in Scribus for a Lulu publication. I am
> using
> > > the template from Lulu and have been able to insert the back cover art
> > and
> > > the front cover art into the template with Scribus. But I can't figure
> > out
> > > how to get the spine text going the right way. How do I get the text to
> > go
> > > down the spine instead of horizontally across the spine? So far, I have
> > > just tried "inserting a text box" into the spine, but can't figure out
> > > where to go to change the direction of the text. Any help would be
> > greatly
> > > appreciated. The more specific, the better! I'm not very
> technologically
> > > savvy, so most of these things aren't automatic for me.
> > > Thank you very much for your help.
> >
> > Hi Cliffe,
> >
> > Use the Properties palette to rotate the text frame 90 degrees in the
> > direction you want.
> >
> > Greg
> >
> >
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