[Scribus] Bug or Feature?

[Craig Bradney]

Hi Rolf,

> - 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.

There are also Distance of Text settings on the shapes tab of the
Properties Palette. You might want to try setting them instead of
reducing the border size.

> - 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.

You can use page numbers by placing them in a template page. Use Alt+#
to insert them into a normal text frame on a template page and then
apply the template to your pages. If your keyboard setup wont allow
Alt+# to insert the character in the text frame, you may need to
redefine the shortcut under Preferences, General tab, Keyboard
Shortcuts.

> - 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).

Yes, its more of a "Master Page" at this point in time.

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

Hopefully the above helps you out. Let me know if you need something
more.

regards
Craig
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