[scribus] Characters outline

[Gregory Pittman]

On 08/16/2014 02:08 PM, Jean-Paul GENDNER wrote:
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>              I have to put text on a picture, and to get this text more readable even if the image color is locally the same as the characters color, I would like to put a small shape of another color around each character shape.
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>              I have found the Outline possibility. However, this allows changing the color of a small part INSIDE the character shape. What I am looking for, is like that but with a shape OUTSIDE the character shape.
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>              Of course, another way is to put the whole text on a colored background shape. But this is not exactly what I am looking for.
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Hi Jean-Paul,

Look at the online manual, Scribus Basics > Editing Shapes, then at the 
bottom where it talks about Create Path from Stroke. Perhaps this is 
what you're looking for.

If that's not it, then I think we need a bit more explanation.

Greg