hi greg > 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.
euh, i would... i don't see in what context, calculating the distance from the bounding box could be useful... ciao a.l.e
