[Scribus] A dotted line...

[Christoph Schäfer]

Am Donnerstag, 28. Juni 2007 18:33 schrieb 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? ;-)

It does. Create the dots the way Louis described it, convert the circle to a 
b?zier curve, select both items, then use Item > Attach Text To Path


HTH

Christoph