[scribus] Wrapping text around picture behind text

Margaret and George McIntosh tenbear at myfairpoint.net
Tue Aug 31 02:31:02 CEST 2010


> On Aug 30, 2010, at 5:50 PM, David Christian Berg wrote:
> 
> > Hey everybody!
> > 
> > I'm playing around with Scribus right now, checking it out again
> after a long time. I must say it has very much matured and seems to
> be quite usable for advanced desktop publishing.
> > However, I'm trying to figure out, how to wrap a text around an
> image, that is _behind_ the text. That is useful if you e.g. have
> light shades of grey in an image image that you want the text to be
> on top of (e.g. a slight shadow), but also a object that you want it
> to flow around. Whenever I put the Text in front of an image
> (regardless of it having wrapping set or not) it doesn't wrap.
> > I'm using Scribus 1.3.7 on a Mac.
> > 
> > Hope somebody can help me out.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > David

I tried this with V1.3.8 on Windows 7. 
I used an existing image which had text flowing around it.
I made a text frame in an open space, put some text in it and moved it over the image. 
It worked fine. 

George




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