[scribus] text flow around another text frame. (Scribus 1.4.6)

[Nicola Griffin]

The way I do it for a poetry magazine is to draw a shape, do the text flow round that, then put the text frame inside. I can easily do birders and fill either frame with a colour. 
Apologies for this appearing with all the other text and probably above. My phone won't allow any other way. 

Nicki Griffin

On 27 Jun 2015 5:21 pm, John Culleton <John at wexfordpress.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 19:50:31 -0400 
> Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote: 
>
> > On 06/25/2015 07:37 PM, John Culleton wrote: 
> > > This has been discussed before I am sure, but 
> > > I can't find the magic formula. I want text 
> > > to flow around another text frame. I got that 
> > > to work. But T want a little offset so that 
> > > when the text flows it doesn't run up right 
> > > next to the other frame. Step by step what do 
> > > I need to do? 
> > > 
> > There are two approaches, and you may want to 
> > use a bit of both. 
> > 
> > The first, as mentioned is to simply set the 
> > "Distances" for the frame that inside or being 
> > flowed around. This can be problematic if the 
> > frame is small, and be quite ugly. 
> > 
> > The other is to decide what you flow around. 
> > The default of course is the frame, but you can 
> > choose to flow around the contour line, which 
> > is under Shape > Text Flows Around Frame > Use 
> > Contour Line. 
> > 
> > Then, edit the frame (again under Shape), and 
> > check Edit Contour Line. Note that amongst the 
> > buttons are a couple which expand the Contour 
> > Line by a certain percentage all around or a 
> > certain number of points all around. 
> > 
> > Greg 
> > 
> > 
> > 
>
> I left out some important details. In this 
> project in order to match previous work the 
> inserted text frame has a light gray background 
> and rounded corners. Also my shaky old hands 
> won't allow me to manipulate a contour line with 
> any success. 
>
> So I took a different path entirely. For each 
> such frame I drew a slightly larger text frame 
> over the top of the existing one. I set it to 
> have text flow around it. Then I went to the Item 
> menu. selected "level", and lowered the blank 
> frame in relation with the real text frame. 
>
> It works and it is not too difficult. 
>
>
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