[scribus] vertical or perpendicular text Scribus 1.3.3

[John Culleton]

On Friday 01 May 2009 02:09:57 pm Edward Stewart wrote:
> Hi there,
> I just installed scribus and I am having trouble inserting
> text that is perpendicular to my main document. Specifically I
> am making a 3 page brocure where the last page will be a tear
> off section designed for people to keep, but we would like to
> make this section a wide long landscape piece so the text
> needs to change orientation. Any help would be appreciated


Just create a long text frame, insert your text, rotate the frame 
e.g., 270 degrees, and move it into position. You find the 
Rotation item under Properties for that text window.  That is 
how I do spine text for book covers btw.

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John Culleton
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