On 11/25/2016 10:45 AM, ale rimoldi wrote: > 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... >
It might be more of a feature request than a bug. For example, if you took a star shape or circle and converted to a text frame, you wouldn't necessarily expect star-shaped or circular Text Distances. Greg
