[scribus] Organizing pictures before inserting them in a book

Jim Ford jaford at watford53.freeserve.co.uk
Thu Dec 2 23:40:20 CET 2010


On 12/2/2010 8:53 PM, Marie-Noëlle Augendre wrote:
> 
> I think I have the answer, and it doesn't involve any additional tool.
> 
> In Scribus, it is possible to have frames on the canevas, outside the limits
> of actual pages. So, I think I will import at once all the images I want to
> work with, in image frames the size of thumbnails, then move them around and
> resize them on the canvas to get the first rough idea of the whole book.
> 
> Then I will move them to their actual position in real pages and adjust
> their sizes.

I've more or less done that. The canvas extends larger than the page
size and I've just roughly pasted the images in the border prior to
placing them. It gets a bit messy, though!

Jim



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