[Scribus] help for a new user?

[Paul Williams]

Thanks Owen.

I'll look into this solution.  I'm using the aqua version of Scribus,
which I believe is 1.3.3.2.

I appreciate the response.
  ~ Paul

On 10/16/06, Owen <rcook at pcug.org.au> wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 21:19:55 -0700
> "Paul Williams" <paulprogrammer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > What a wonderful app!  Thanks to the devs out there.
> >
> > Part of the document I'm creating in Scribus is rather long -- several
> > pages.  I would like to have Scribus automatically generate pages and
> > link the text fields until the article content is completely
> > exhausted.  Ideally, the feature would work like this:
> >
> > First page of long article --> page 2...n-1 --> last page of article
> >
> > where the first page might have some header information that needn't
> > be repeated, and the same with the footer.  Only the middle page would
> > be automatically copied until the entire article is displayed.
> >
> > Alternately, right now I'd be OK if the last page were left off, and
> > only the 2..n page were repeated.
> >
> > Does this feature exist in Scribus?  How can I activate it?
>
>
>
> Probably a bit to general for most DTP processing.
>
>
>
> Why dont you set up page 1 with the text frame and then
> Page->Copy->More pages than what you want (1.3.4 series)
> Insert text into page 1 frame
>
> Then just click through the chaining
>
> Then remove any unwanted pages.
>
>
>
> Owen
>
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> Owen
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