[scribus] skewed text frame & text distances

[ale rimoldi]

hi vaclav
> I am creating a leaflet with skewed text frames -- the verticals are
> all rotated by 10°. I would like to flow text into those frames
> keeping 5mm clearance on both sides. I tried to set paragraph
> leftskip/rightskip, but it seems to be effective relative to the text
> area bounding box, not the actual shape on that line; the same
> happens with Text/Columns&Text Distances (as suggested in 
> http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/2015-April/051695.html), 
> where a thin line appears in that distance from the bbox vertical, 
> again, not skewed.
> 
> Is this something expected? For me definitely counter-intuitive. Is 
> there some workaround? I could move text frame nodes by those 5mm,
> but it is a bit tedious in the absence of rotated guides.
> 
> Thanks for suggestions, cheers!

i can confirm your observation...

looks like a bug to me...
can you please submit it to the bug tracker?

... at the end, yes, creating text frames of the correct size seems to
be the simplest solution...

ciao
a.l.e