[Scribus] spanning pages...

[Wesley Allen]

Louis Desjardins wrote:

>> HI guys,
>>    In my brief forays into 1.3cvs (which looks beautiful, btw), I 
>> came accross a feature request...
>>
>>    When I insert a graphic that I want to span two pages, it splits 
>> the graphic at edge of the page.  Is there any way to get it to split 
>> elements at the margin guides instead?
>
>
> Hi Wes,
>
> I'm not sure you'll like this procedure - you tell me - but here is 
> how I'd do it. BTW I don't have 1.3 yet.
>
> Make your graphic run over the spread and once you're satisfied, 
> duplicate this very frame exactly on top of the other, so, zero, zero 
> in the X Y fields using Multiple duplicate and 1 for that many frame 
> (not frames!). (Parenthesis: I've always found strange that setting 
> duplicating values was not possible unless you use the Multiple 
> duplicate... even when you really need to dupe once... End of 
> parenthesis) Then, reduce the width of the top frame to cover only the 
> part you want on one page. Then select the bottom one and do the same 
> for the opposite page. Basically, you'll end up with a complete 
> graphic in 2 separate frames. Using the same technique, you could also 
> push away the two frames from the middle to take care of binding 
> issues. Hope the explanation is clear enough!

Nice work-around; I'll have to try it!

Wes

>
> HTH
>
> Louis
>
>>
>> Wes
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