[Scribus] Importing Text & Docs

[Franky Van Liedekerke]

On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 09:22:39 -0400 (EDT)
Marshall Lake <mlake at mlake.net> wrote:

> 
> > > > Is scribus the tool that I should be using?  I've briefly
> > > > attempted to import a text file larger than a single page
> > > > and I've run into problems trying to import the text past page
> > > > 1.
> 
> > > create a text box.
> > > right click on the box, you get a menu.
> > > select get text
> > > select the file you want to bring in
> 
> > I think chaining of text boxes has to be mentioned.  One has to do
> > this(before or after importing a large text file) in order to spread
> > the imported text across several pages.
> 
> Yes ... "chaining of text boxes" seems to be the missing ingredient
> for me.  I looked through the on-line help and I cannot find anything
> about chaining text boxes.  How do I accomplish that?
> 
> May I suggest a search facility for the on-line help.
> 
> Is there more documentation than the on-line help?  Is documentation
> available on a PDF doc?

There's an older tutorial that talks about chaining on the scribus site:

http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/docs/index.html

Franky