I hadn't thought about doing that, as I hadn't stumbled onto that ability in Scribus. I'll remember it, though.<br><br>I was also having so much trouble getting the text to do what I wanted, I finally gave up and did it in Open Office. And I needed to get it done, I was running out of time. In 30 minutes I had the layout I wanted. Kept changing colors and editing text, but I would have done that with Scribus too.<br>
<br>Hopefully, when I get a couple more projects done, I can come back and try to finish it.<br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:49 AM, John Ghormley KJ4UFG <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kj4ufg@sera.org">kj4ufg@sera.org</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;">On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Gregory Pittman <<a href="mailto:gregp_ky@yahoo.com">gregp_ky@yahoo.com</a>>wrote:<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> On 01/27/2011 05:37 PM, Ken Springer wrote:<br>
><br>
</div><div class="im">> 2. Is there a way to vertically justify text in a text frame?<br>
>><br>
><br>
> No. This is still a manual operation. So far has proven hard to implement,<br>
> considering the frames environment of Scribus. If you are not making the<br>
> border of the frame visible, the frame space is rather arbitrary.<br>
> AFAIK, when you consider the variables of font size, linespacing, and so<br>
> forth, Scribus doesn't really know how much space there is below several<br>
> lines of text.<br>
><br>
> Greg<br>
<br>
<br>
</div>With respect to your second question, I offer this that you may already<br>
know. If you have text in a frame, you may click on Properties of the frame<br>
and then go to the Text bar within the Properties dialog. Under the Text<br>
bar ("bar" for want of a more correct term) you will find adjustments for<br>
Top, Bottom Right and Left. I use the Top adjustment frequently to move an<br>
article down in the frame to separate it from a frame that may be close<br>
above or just to vertically justify the text, visually, in the frame. Left<br>
and right also work great for adding space between a frame and the text or<br>
just visually justifying the text in a frame. However the latter is<br>
probably more easily done with the Justify button in a style or in the text<br>
editor. But, vertical justification I prefer to do visually as I find the<br>
best layout is frequently with a bit more space at the bottom than at the<br>
top. That is a general rule of thumb I was taught when doing layout<br>
manually years ago.<br>
<font color="#888888">--<br>
John Ghormley KJ4UFG<br>
Editor, SERA *Repeater Journal*<br>
Walkertown, NC USA<br>
<a href="mailto:editor@sera.org">editor@sera.org</a><br>
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