[Scribus] Success story and question.

[Craig Bradney]

> ----- Original Message -----
> Subject: Re: [Scribus] Success story and question.
> From: Eilert <eilert-sprachen at t-online.de>
> To: scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de
> Date: 08-02-2007 11:48
> 
> 
> Jan Schrewe schrieb:
> > Kite Lau schrieb am Donnerstag, 8. Februar 2007:
> >> ? 2007-02-07?? 19:14 +0100?Jan Schrewe???
> >>
> >>> Yes, the details are exactly what  I am looking for. The Problem is
> >>> that the
> >>> position of the textframes is absolute. So in order to generate the
> >>> "master
> >>> file" with 500 pages I need to know how calculate the position and I
> >>> didn't
> >>> find anything in the documentation of the sla file.
> >> You make this master file within Scribus. Why you need to know the
> >> position?
> > 
> > Yes, you are right. I just found out that it is possible to copy a page 
> > n-times.
> > 
> > Thank you all.
> > 
> > Jan
> 
> 
> Hi Jan,
> 
> maybe this helps you:
> 
> I experimented a bit with an empty document of 1 page and 1 text frame, 
> saved it, looked at it, then added 1 page, 1 text frame, another text 
> frame, and I found it's relatively easy to change contents etc.
> 
> In the file, you will find <PAGE ... NUM="0" ...> for the first page, 
> NUM="1" for the second and so on. They all stand below each other. It 
> was easy to copy them and add a number to get more pages.
> 
> Then there are page objects <PAGEOBJECT ...> several lines until 
> </PAGEOBJECT>
> 
> In my case, there were <ITEXT ... CH="This is the text" ... > containing 
> the text of the text frame. They are within each page object definition.
> 
> In the <PAGEOBJECT-definition there is one item, rather at the end of 
> it, called e. g. OwnPage="1" for the second page. But when I altered it, 
> the object didn't appear on another page, I don't know why. This would 
> be necessary to add more page objects with text frames for each page. In 
> my case, Scribus wouldn't accept alterations here and just leave the 
> frame at its place or (in case of a newly added page object) show it at 
> the last page before more pages were added manually.
> 
> But it seems to be possible, though. I guess such an approach will be 
> easier to handle than having Scribus produce additional copies of the 
> first page, then saving, closing, adding the texts from the database, 
> then reloading and making pdf of it.
>

FWIW, this frame creation process isn't necessary in 1.3.4cvs. 
New doc, set page count to 500.
Insert->Frame 
- Set type to text
- Set position and size
- Set it to put a frame on all pages
- Click ok.

Regards
Craig