On 05/02/2013 12:27 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Thu, 02 May 2013 17:52:02 +0200 > Rolf-Werner Eilert <eilert-sprachen at t-online.de> dijo: > >> From an older Scribus version, I found a document which has text >> frames with a single line at top. It's an application form, the >> frames look like >> >> ---------------------- >> Name >> >> >> and so on. I cannot find any way to produce such a thing in Scribus >> now, could you imagine how I made these once? > I can't comment on how your lines might have been created, but I can > offer my personal way of creating lines in forms. > > I create a 1/2 point straight horizontal line of, say, a couple > centimeters. I cut it to the clipboard. Then I insert my cursor in the > text where I want the line and paste it in. And finally, I select just > the line and use the properties palette to adjust its width. With the > paragraph justified I can tweak the length of the line(s) so that the > text on the same line are not spaced out too much and everything fits > properly. > > In case it's not clear, what Jason talking about is inline graphics, where you can paste a graphical element into the body of some text in a text frame. As he says, you select your graphic, in this case a horizontal line, copy it (Ctrl+C, for example), then in Edit Contents mode in a text frame, paste (Ctrl+V).
Greg
