[scribus] advice on adding "alt" text

[Gregory Pittman]

On 04/17/2014 07:58 PM, Wayne DePrince Jr. wrote:
>
>   thanks again.  so if i follow correctly, the separate text frames 
> are the only way to do this, as there is no "alternate text" option 
> for vector graphics/etc. in Scribus and PDFs?
>
This is something that would need some expansion of current capabilities.

Conceivably, one could now make some annotation frames containing the 
text. This would be searchable in a PDF, but a side effect is the 
appearance of the icon in the document indicating there is a note. 
Hovering over the note shows you the text, and you can use Edit > Search 
in Adobe Reader to search for some text in a comment. AFAIK, these icons 
never print when you print the PDF. You can hide the comments in the 
PDF, but then they are no longer searchable, so you might need to switch 
back and forth from showing/hiding. By definition, annotation frame text 
doesn't show, so its color in Scribus doesn't matter.

Perhaps another but undeveloped option would be to add to the 
capabilities of object attributes, which are currently very limited. 
There still would be only a certain amount of text one could add, and I 
don't know that these attributes end up anywhere in the PDF.

And it's worth mentioning that using your method, you can also assign 
text in a frame a color of None.

Greg