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IDProjectCategoryView StatusLast Update
0003798ScribusStory Editor / Text Framespublic2016-04-30 14:04
Reportermkoren Assigned To 
PrioritylowSeverityfeatureReproducibilityN/A
Status confirmedResolutionopen 
PlatformanyOSanyOS Versionany
Product Version1.3 
Summary0003798: treat text on path like normal text frame (allow linked text and multiple lines per frame)
DescriptionSee screenshot.

The specified curve would repeat vertically according to linespacing, and text would flow from one line to the next as normal. These frames could be linked to each other or ordinary text frames in the usual manner.
Tagslinked frames, text to path
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has duplicate 0004711 closedjghali Let text on path recognise line breaks 
related to 0004715 new Let text flow from frames to paths (and the other way around) 

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2006-05-10 21:54

 

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christoph_s

2006-05-11 00:27

administrator   ~0011225

I can't see much need of this feature, unless you provide a real world example.

Maybe one of these "nice to have" things.

avox

2006-05-11 00:37

administrator   ~0011227

Looks useful, but might take a while to implement.
Text along disconnected path will come first and allows your example if you
use "duplicate items" to create multiple lines and then "combine polygons".

mkoren

2006-05-11 16:31

reporter   ~0011233

Wouldn't be needed so much for normal books and magazines, but it could be used for artistic multiple-line headings and highlight boxes in flyers or posters, for instance.

Agreed disconnected linked paths would allow the rest to be done manually.

mkoren

2006-05-11 17:29

reporter   ~0011236

Quoting avox from closed 0003800:

>>>Ah, you also want to go around bends? That definitely will get to compliccated
(to implement) for normal textframes.

>>> Can I offer a "text along path" feature which works with disconnected paths...

To achieve this effect with linked path text, there would need to be one of two things:

-a convenient way to make "offset" paths to make the concentric baseline shells (see screenshot in 3800, making a whole 'U' bend as one path), or
-a convenient way to create separate path segments in each wing with diminishing sizes (which the frame shape provides for text) AND then link them sequentially by 'U' shell.

>>> ...and allows right/left/center alignment per path segment?

Yes, and block too, which might be the most useful.

brunod

2009-11-06 07:56

reporter   ~0022819

It could be usefull when you need to write vertice like

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It's the only way i've found to write so, using a bezier curve that is straight and stick the text to this path. But it's only possible with one line. To get a text, this feature could help, or create a text boxe that follows this path as origin side (usualy upper side), then the boxes could be linked to chain them.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2006-05-10 21:54 mkoren New Issue
2006-05-10 21:54 mkoren File Added: curved_text.png
2006-05-11 00:25 christoph_s Priority normal => low
2006-05-11 00:27 christoph_s Note Added: 0011225
2006-05-11 00:37 avox Note Added: 0011227
2006-05-11 00:37 avox Status new => confirmed
2006-05-11 16:31 mkoren Note Added: 0011233
2006-05-11 17:29 mkoren Note Added: 0011236
2009-11-05 22:35 jghali Relationship added has duplicate 0004711
2009-11-06 07:56 brunod Note Added: 0022819
2015-09-17 20:08 Kunda Category Story Editor / Text Frames => Story Ed/Txt Frames
2015-09-17 20:12 Kunda Category Story Ed/Txt Frames => Story Editor / Text Frames
2016-04-30 14:04 Kunda Tag Attached: linked frames
2016-04-30 14:04 Kunda Tag Attached: text to path
2016-04-30 14:04 Kunda Relationship added related to 0004715