On Wednesday 27 December 2006 23:56, Roger wrote: > I am trying to figure > > >> out how to set a border around the image so the text isn't butted up > >> against the image when it does avoid writing on or behind the image. I > >> can increase the whitespace around the image in GIMP but this is quite > >> cumbersome. > > I place an empty image box where I want the text to flow around, size, > edit and shape it to suit. In fact I use a lot of empty image boxes to > position text in a text box Then place a new image box inside the first > image box and put the image in the sceond box, then when its all ok group > them. > it means 2 image boxes but what the heck. > Roger
Why not increase the contour line of the image frame and wrap around it instead of the frame itself? See shape tab of properties palette. Craig
