Re: [libreoffice-users] Text-boxes. How to set up?

Hi :)
Ok, the trouble i am having now is trying to get text to stay inside a box that has it's corners 
curved off.  

They are a bit like an extreme version of the rounded smoothness of Xp windows compared to Win98's 
ones.  The curves take several lines so at the moment i press
Shift Enter
and then put a lot of spaces in at the beginning and end of the lines at the top and bottom of each 
page.  

Thanks to Brian's  answer (which was after this one by Dan) i have been able to link text-boxes 
together so that writing stays inside square borders but it's those curved corners that are a bit 
of a pain.  

Regards from 
Tom :)  







> ________________________________
> From: Dan Lewis <elderdanlewis@gmail.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Wednesday, 13 March 2013, 20:02
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Text-boxes.  How to set up?
>
>
>       One way to do this is to
> 1. Use Draw to make your curved text-box.
> 2. Convert this box into a bitmap and save it as a PNG.
> 3. Use this as the background for your pages.
> 4. Use paragraph styles to place the text where you want it. (Use the 
> Indenting & Spacing tab of the paragraph style.) With the curves in the 
> background, you might need to have several paragraph styles for 
> differences in indentation.
>
> --Dan
>
>
> On 03/13/2013 03:05 PM, Tom wrote:
> > Hi :)
> > How can i make a nicely curved text-box that automatically keeps all the
> > text inside the boundaries of the box?  At the moment i cheat a lot and it's
> > a lot of work that ends up never looking quite right
> >
> > The 'attachment' shows the type of curved shape i am aiming for.  Ideally
> > text written into the box on page 1 would automatically flow into the box on
> > the next page but again i just do a manual cut&paste which is annoying and
> > also never quite works properly.
> >
> > Text-box,_how?.odt
> > <http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4043625/Text-box%2C_how%3F.odt>
> >
> > Many thanks and regards from
> > Tom :)
>
>
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