[Scribus] Re: how to edit templates

[Louis Desjardins]

Steve Veltkamp a ?crit :

> I must be missing something. I have a page I'm working on, and have 
> created a block of text that I want to make a true template so I can 
> apply it to other documents.

Hi Steve,
> 
> I click Edit-Templates - a dialog box appears over a blank page. I click 
> New, make a name, and it adds it to the selection list. Nothing appears 
> on the blank page sheet beneath, 
Until you place object on that page...

> and can't edit that page when dialog box is open.
This shouldn't happen.

What Craig has said is the blank page *is* the template. As additional 
info, you can add any element you want to that blank page. If you're not 
able to edit this page, then there is something wrong with Scribus. The 
only thing you have to be aware of is that none of these elements will 
be editable in the document (you will have to go back in the Template 
menu to do so). Once you're done, click "Close". Then, you have to Apply 
the template to a page or a group of pages through the Page>Apply 
Templates menu. Select the template of your choice and to what page(s) 
you want it applied and click OK. You're done.

I click close in the dialog box, and both the dialog box
> and blank page disappear and I'm back to my original page I was working on.
Yes, as I said above, that's normal behaviour.

HTH

Louis
> 
> I don't know what Craig's answer means.
> 
> On Wednesday 23 March 2005 16:24, Steve Veltkamp wrote:
> 
>>> I can't find the way to edit 'true templates' - not the 'new from
>>> template' type but to have a stylized headline, a logo, etc.  The Edit
>>> Template menu brings up a dialog box to append, new, duplicate and
>>> delete, but all new seems to do is add it to the list - no way to do
>>> anything with it.
>>
>>  
>>
> 
> When it does, the page you will see will be the page template
> Craig
> 


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