[Scribus] Importing Text & Docs

[Marshall Lake]

> There's an older tutorial that talks about chaining on the scribus site:
> http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/docs/index.html

Thanks.

> > 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?

> Create your first text box. Import text into it. Create the second text
> box and click on the "create text chains" icon. The text will flow into
> the second box. Rince and repeat as often as you need to.

Sounds easy enough.  And I was eventually able to accomplish what I
wanted, however, I had trouble making my document multi-pages.  (I have
not read the scribus docs yet ... and remember ... I'm DTP-challenged.)
First I created a NEW document in scribus.  Then I inserted a TEXTBOX
covering the entire one page.  I imported text.  So far, so good.  But now
what?  My NEW scribus document is still a one-page document (even though
the text I imported fills more than one page).  And I don't see how to
easily create a second page to the document.  I ended up copying the one
page to a second page and then cutting the text from the second page.
And now after clicking on the CREATE TEXTCHAINS icon and clicking on page
1 the text overflowed into the text box on page 2.  I went through the
same thing to overflow the remaining text to a page 3.

Is this the way it's supposed to work for multi-page documents?

> > Personally, I'd like as many translations of Peter's website as
> > possible - if space becomes a problem, I have plenty of server space
> > and can put the mirrors there.

> IMHO it could be better to have larger english docs - e.g. templates
> howto etc. Docs translations at the second line... "everyone speaks
> english today" :)))

I second this ... being that English is the only language I know.

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