[scribus] How to print guides, empty image frames and other internal indications ?

[Mike Sleger]

On Aug 31, 2011, at 7:15 AM, Gregory Pittman wrote:

> On 08/31/2011 08:26 AM, Frédéric Schütz wrote:
>> On 30.08.2011 13:27, Gregory wrote:
>> 
>>>> > I am currently designing a page layout with Scribus, having to decide
>>>> > how to arrange my elements, etc.
>>>> >
>>>> > I'd like to print the page as I see it within Scribus (so that I can
>>>> > print it in A3, discuss and annotate it), that is, including the
>>>> guides
>>>> > and the frames (even though they may be empty for now).
>>>> >
>>>> > I did not find any way of doing this; did I just miss it or is it
>>>> > difficult/impossible ?
>>>> >
>>> I think the best bet will be screenshots, unless you want to create
>>> lines that look like guides, and so forth.
>> 
>> Thanks to Gregory and John for their answers. So it looks screenshots
>> are the way to go. This is not very convenient (if I want good
>> resolution in A3, I will probably have to zoom in, take two screenshots
>> and paste them together), but doable.
>> 
>> Is there a particular reason for this to be impossible to do within
>> Scribus, or is it just because no one required that/thought about it/had
>> time to implement it so far ? Or in other words, it is worth submitting
>> a feature request bug ?
>> 
> I think it's because this has nothing to do with the raison d'être of Scribus -- these are feedback for the user with no intention or need for them to be part of the output, whether it's printing directly from Scribus or making a PDF.
> 
> Greg

Yes, but there are other apps out there that include an output option like "include non-printing features", which is what he's asking for.