[Scribus] A dotted line...

[Femke Snelting]

Louis Desjardins wrote:
> Femke Snelting a ?crit :
>> Christoph Sch?fer wrote:
>>  > Am Donnerstag, 28. Juni 2007 16:39 schrieb Femke Snelting:
>>  >> Dear list,
>>  >>
>>  >> We're in the middle of producing Mute Magazine 06 in Scribus 1.3.3.9
>>  >> (should be out next July!), and so far so good. :-)
>>  >>
>>  >> For this we need to import a few illustrations originally done in Quark
>>  >> (I exported the document from Quark as pdf, and than converted them to
>>  >> ps). All goes well besides one small detail: somehow in Scribus all
>>  >> dotted lines have changed to dashed lines.
>>  >>
>>  >> I tried to simply re-create the dotted lines in Scribus, but no luck:
>>  >> just dashed lines.
>>  >>
>>  >> So... any ideas how to produce a dotted line, other than typing
>>  >> ............... ?
>>  >>
>>  >> best!
>>  >>
>>  >>
>>  >
>>  > Hi Femke,
>>  >
>>  > heel makkelijk:
>>  >
>>  > Lijn invoegen, dan F2 (Eigenschappen) > Lijn > Lijntype.
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > Groeten
>>  >
>>  > Christoph
>>
>> Vielen Dank Christoph!
>>
>> Sorry I was not clearer: I did try all kinds of line-variations and 
>> endings, but end up with dashed lines any ways; the 'dotted' option 
>> under 'type of line' just gives smaller dashes, but still no dots (same 
>> issue in Inkscape by the way).
> 
> Bonjour Femke,
> 
> I guess this calls for a bug report. To my knowledge, very few comments 
> on the line options came to the list. So yours might just be that it was 
> not tested enough before.
> 
> My workaround has so many drawbacks and is so akward that I am reluctant 
> to tell it but nonetheless... You can use fill character and tabulator 
> to achieve such a dotted line. It will work in some cases...
> 
> Best to you too!
> 
> Louis

OK will file! I do like your solution though, but does not really work 
for dotted circles, does it? ;-)

F