[scribus] Characters outline

Gregory Pittman gpittman at iglou.com
Mon Aug 18 00:25:02 UTC 2014


On 08/17/2014 07:34 PM, Gregory Pittman wrote:
> On 08/17/2014 10:39 AM, Jean-Paul GENDNER wrote:
>> The size of the text is limited by the area availlable in the 
>> picture. What I do is I use a "Black" (thicker as Bold) font.
>>
>>
> It occurs to me that a workaround here is to make your text with its 
> outline.
> Next, make a copy of the text frame at the same XPos, YPos 
> coordinates. For this frame use no background, and no outline.
> What this should do is cover up the part of the outline that is inside 
> the glyph margins, showing only the outside part of the outline.
>
I've made a wiki page to illustrate this, since others may have the same 
question.

http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Outlining_fonts

Greg



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