[scribus] Question

[a.l.e]

hi craig
>> On 19 Mar 2015, at 09:49, JLuc <jluc at no-log.org> wrote:
>>
>> Here my go :
>>
>> If you create all the pages of your document, all empty,
>> and then create your frames on the first left and right page,
>> then you can select both of them and multiple-duplicate them
>> on all the page in a single operation.
>> Specify a x move of 0
>> and a y move totalling page height + vertical space displayed between pages.
>> (vertical space displayed between pages being set in the document preferences).
>>
>>
>> Message to the devs : http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=10557 is a request
>> to make this common action more UI-easy
>>
>>
> I kind of get that.. but why wouldn’t you use the already existing functionality of Item-> Create Item and create the items over the pages all in one go?
>

create item would be way more useful if it could use the selected item 
as the template for creating the new elements.

going through all the fields and setting the values is rather painful 
and error prone...

as noted in the ticket mentioned above: the two dialogs (multiple 
duplicate and insert) should probably be merged.

have a wonderful day
a.l.e