[scribus] specialized tools versus the one big hammer...

[Gregory Pittman]

On 10/08/2017 05:36 AM, JLuc wrote:
> Le 06/10/2017 à 14:30, ZASKE Martin a écrit :
> 
>> Yesterday, rather late, Scribus has tricked me. I had copied and pasted
>> one small text-frame from another Scribus document and it destroyed my
>> crossword-grid (same page, different layer, different style). Luckily I
>> had zoomed so, that I caught it right away. (probably a bug, something
>> to do with default-styles or whatever). 
> 
> Probably.
> It looks like https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=11814
> one of the long standing MAB (most annoying bug) :
> 
> Importing some part of a scribus doc into another doc
> (either with Page Import or with Copy'n'Paste)
> doesnt manage conflicting styles well and it breaks destination
> document's layout.
> All the more since all styles are imported, even when unused.
> 
> It requires to create a special version of the imported document before
> paste or import :
> in this special version you ought to delete as many unused styles it is
> possible,
> and rename the used one so they dont conflict with destination styles
> - sometime it's very tricky to do -.
> 

It's worth trying to use the Scrapbook...

Greg