[Scribus] Adjusting page numbering to span multiple *.sla documents? How?

[Craig Bradney]

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> Subject: [Scribus] Adjusting page numbering to span multiple
*.sla	documents? How?
> From: ArthurX <arthurx at gmail.com>
> To: scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de
> Date: 18-02-2008 23:40
> 
> 
> Hi fooks,
> 
> Thanks a lot for making Scribus!!!
> At the moment I'm using it to create an art book.
> (To be honest I'm bussy with scribus and the book almost a year now.
> Not full-time.)
> 
> I have divided it in a number of  chapters, each in
> its own  scribus  file to facilitate a quick start up
> and workable documents.
> I use scribus 1.3.3.9 on windows XP.
> 
> But now I want to connect all the page numbers together.
> 
> And I found a howto on this page
http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Pagination.
> 
> While the webpage is good, the geek trick does not work for me.
> 
> This is the trick: "Search for the string FIRSTNUM=. And change that
number"
> Nothing changes in the real chapter and nothing changes in a simple 5
> page empty document with only page numbers.
> 
> I know that there is surely a way, that this can be worked out.
> So if you can help me,
> 

You are following the 1.2.x instructions - lower on the page it tells you
how to do it in 1.3.3.x, which will allow you to start any file on any
number with various numbering schemes.

Craig