[Scribus] spanning pages...

[Craig Bradney]

On Monday 07 March 2005 06:48, Wesley Allen wrote:
> 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

Yep, thats the old 1.2 method that works very well, but not so well for text 
frames.

Craig
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