[scribus] "Master" Pages (was Re: New Linux User -- Scribus in place of PageMaker 6?)

[Achim Leitner]

All,

> Andreas wrote:
> >I'd say we rather implement editing text frames on masterpages
> >instead of renaming them again.

On Fri, 08 Aug 2008, Thomas Bechtold wrote:
> This would be excellent. I fully support this solution.

Let me jump in here, too. Considering non-trivial arrangements of text
boxes, you'll definitely need a way to create them in one place for
good. So I'm wholeheartly in favor of that suggestion.

> >If you come from InDesign, have you used the options "override MP
> >item" and "detach MP item" often? Should Scribus also offer that
> >options?
> 
> I don't use them very often, certainly not recently (I keep my work in
> a very strictly-structured format). I can see, however, how these
> things would be very useful for people with less-static work. Anyone
> else use these?

It's quite common in magazine layouts that you have elements on a page
that have to be modified in special cases. Consider a page number that
needs to be removed from single pages when there is an advertising on
that page. Or you have graphical elements on a single page that need to
modify the elements that drop in from the master page. You could, of
course, create several master pages and apply the one that fits best,
still I'd strongly recommend to have a feature that allows you to
override the defaults from the master page.

Achim
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