[scribus] Subject: Align object relative to other object (not to page)

[Gregory Pittman]

On 07/20/2013 05:40 PM, Judah Kleinveldt wrote:
>                  Hello,
>                  
>                  I want to create some business cards with Scribus.
>                  Therefore I have
>                  created a black rectangle with the size of the card on a
>                  A4 page, which
>                  I will copy afterwards to fill the whole page.
>                  
>                  I would now like to insert text frames etc. into the
>                  card. One of it I
>                  would like to center on the card (but not on the page).
>                  Is there a way
>                  to somehow arrange everything relative to the rectangle
>                  (Also to reset
>                  the ruler, like it is done if I doubleclick on a text
>                  frame)?
>                  
>                  Thanks!
>                  Hans
>
> Hans. the best way is to create your artwork to the size the cards will
> be.
> I have attached a template you can use, this way you can align your
> artwork to the page dimensions instead of trying to do the aligning
> according to objects on an A4 artboard/canvas.
>
> My dimensions include bleed,live area and the trim to size on a 85mm x
> 50mm sized card, but you can resize the cards to meet your own
> preferences. 85mm x 50mm ensures you get 10 cards per A4 sheet if you
> want to impose this later on, though it will be better to get the
> printers to do their own impositions.
>
Another feature  of Scribus which can be useful is Allign and Distribute 
(Windows > Align and Distribute), where you can align objects in various 
ways, to each other, to guides, and so on. It's worth playing around 
with to see the various things you can do with it.

Greg