[scribus] Using Scribus for a newsletter

[Gregory Pittman]

Gregory Pittman wrote:
> Joe Ward wrote:
>>   Thanks to all who have responded for the friendly welcome to 
>> Scribus. There is nothing like a friendly group to help a person 
>> through the inevitable snarls of learning a new program. I hope to 
>> progress to the point of being helpful to others.
>>
>>    I still have this problem with master pages, even going through 
>> the new tutorial (having spent some hours with the earlier version) 
>> and reading what else I can find.
>>
>>    I have my four templates. I call one up, using "new from a 
>> template" under the file menu.
>> Then I go to the Page menu, and click on "convert to master page," 
>> give it a name, and click okay. Then I click on the edit menu and go 
>> to Master Pages, and, sure enough, there it is, right in there with 
>> Normal. So I get the next template, click on convert to master page, 
>> give it a name and click okay. When I go to edit/master pages, I find 
>> the new master page in place, but the previous one is gone.
>>    Why is this happening?  Is "convert to master page" not a 
>> legitimate way to make a master page?
> It may be that you need to rename this new master page to make sure 
> the next one doesn't overwrite it.
>
I think now I may understand where you're conceptualizing this incorrectly.
When you get the next template, you are starting a new document, so then 
when you convert to a master page, it applies to that new document.

Master pages cannot exist outside of the context of a document, so if 
you close the document, you have closed the master pages associated with it.
What you can do is to click Edit > Master Pages... and then import a 
Master Page from another document, so you can easily make use of Master 
Pages from elsewhere.

Just because you have created or imported Master Pages doesn't mean you 
are necessarily using them. They must be applied to your Document page. 
A new document by default will have the 'Normal' Master Page (blank), 
which you can then switch to one of your choice (you cannot rename this 
Normal page, and you cannot name one of your custom Master Pages as 
'Normal'). A given document page can only have one kind of Master Page 
associated with it.

Greg