<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Gregory Pittman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gregp_ky@yahoo.com">gregp_ky@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 01/27/2011 05:37 PM, Ken Springer wrote:<br>
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2. Is there a way to vertically justify text in a text frame?<br>
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No. This is still a manual operation. So far has proven hard to implement, considering the frames environment of Scribus. If you are not making the border of the frame visible, the frame space is rather arbitrary.<br>
AFAIK, when you consider the variables of font size, linespacing, and so forth, Scribus doesn't really know how much space there is below several lines of text.<br>
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Greg </blockquote></div><br>With respect to your second question, I offer this that you may already know. If you have text in a frame, you may click on Properties of the frame and then go to the Text bar within the Properties dialog. Under the Text bar ("bar" for want of a more correct term) you will find adjustments for Top, Bottom Right and Left. I use the Top adjustment frequently to move an article down in the frame to separate it from a frame that may be close above or just to vertically justify the text, visually, in the frame. Left and right also work great for adding space between a frame and the text or just visually justifying the text in a frame. However the latter is probably more easily done with the Justify button in a style or in the text editor. But, vertical justification I prefer to do visually as I find the best layout is frequently with a bit more space at the bottom than at the top. That is a general rule of thumb I was taught when doing layout manually years ago.<br clear="all">
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