I've been using Scribus for a while now, after having used Inkscape for a long time before that. I alternate between 1.4.1 and 1.5.0.svn depending on the features I need (both from the listed PPAs, under Ubuntu 11.10). I have a couple of questions about text handling.<div>
<br></div><div>1. Scribus always aligns text boxes by the box boundaries, not by the text within it. I see how this makes sense, but is there any way to align the *contents* of the text box, rather than the box itself? For example, if I want to perfectly centre text inside a rectangle (horizontally and vertically)... well, I don't know how to do that. If I try to resize the text box to be as close as possible to the edges of the text, usually the text will disappear before the box is small enough.</div>
<div><br></div><div>2. Inkscape allows you to align multiple text elements to their common baseline or leading edge. The only thing I can find like that in Scribus is the baseline grid, but that's common to all text, you can't use it for different sizes of text, and doesn't work on text running at 90°. Are there other methods or tricks I can use to align specific text elements to a common baseline? What about leading edge?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Jason</div>