[scribus-dev] Editable Master Pages

[Gregory Pittman]

Louis Desjardins wrote:
> 2008/8/2 "Christoph Schäfer" <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de 
> <mailto:christoph-schaefer at gmx.de>>
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>     The problem is that a master page may contain several layers.
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> Imagine the mess, now. Several layers into a master page... Where will 
> this lead us?! (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
>
I agree. The solution is not going to be to make Master Pages more complex.
> Master Pages are in fact a locked layer. The containers (empty text 
> and image frames) are locked. The content is uneditable and locked. 
> This works perfectly and has a predictable behaviour, always. At least 
> in Scribus.
>
> Maybe the problem is not named correctly? Thus, it may lead us to 
> think the issue is the Master Page. It may well be elsewhere. The 
> issue now is to allow going back and forth while editing the layout, 
> from idea A to B to C then back to A or A', endlessly. And this of 
> course defeats the idea of the Master Page concept. If a Master Page 
> can be further edited downstream, this can have many effects on the 
> operations downstream too. Such as proofreading, quality control, and 
> finally, printing. And costs, of course.
>
Maybe having a Copy To... function would help -- where you could copy to 
the same page with particular coordinates, a different page with the 
same or different coordinates, all pages, or a range/selected pages. I 
don't have a fixed opinion about this idea of being able to edit one 
copy then have all of them sync together -- maybe the best thing there 
would be to use the Action History to go back to the point before you 
did a Copy To..., edit the original, then Copy To... once again. OR, 
have a dialog with a list of objects in the document, where you can 
click one or a number of them and carry out a collective operation, 
including delete -- perhaps just adding capabilities to the Outline dialog.

Greg