[Scribus] Bug or Feature?

[Eilert]

Hi there,

I am new here, although I am using Scribus for quite some weeks now 
trying to understand all its features.

There are some questions left:

- When I determine a border, Scribus will not print outside that border. 
Maybe this makes sense to some people, but when I want to use the border 
for page numbers or footers or pictures falling out of the ordinary 
layout or anything else at times, it is only possible when I set the 
border to nearly 0. Else it won't print there. This would be ok, but the 
option to have text frames inserted to every new page depends on these 
borders. Even if such a behaviour of border made sense, shouldn't new 
text frames be based on some kind of different confines? Now I will have 
to fix the borders for every new page to have any new text frames be 
inserted correctly, and then reconfigure them to have any objects lying 
outside be printed.

- As we talk about page numbers - isn't there any way of having them 
inserted automatically in any text frame? I do not require kind of 
automatic footing or headers including page numbers (it would be nice, 
but one can live without it), but a simple tag such like # or so would 
be nice - or a "field command" or something like that. I didn't find 
that yet, at least.

- Template Pages just appear as background. This is perfect for page 
numbers, logos and lines appearing on every new page, but it should be 
called Background Template or so. A Template Page in my opinion should 
produce a new page with all elements of text frames and so on free to be 
worked on (except the locked ones).

I hope someone can explain me why Scribus works these ways and how you 
think one should work with it :-)

Rolf