[scribus] Using Scribus for a newsletter

Gregory Pittman gpittman at iglou.com
Sun Sep 14 17:32:13 CEST 2008


Joe Ward wrote:
>   Thanks to all who have responded for the friendly welcome to 
> Scribus. There is nothing like a friendly group to help a person 
> through the inevitable snarls of learning a new program. I hope to 
> progress to the point of being helpful to others.
>
>    I still have this problem with master pages, even going through the 
> new tutorial (having spent some hours with the earlier version) and 
> reading what else I can find.
>
>    I have my four templates. I call one up, using "new from a 
> template" under the file menu.
> Then I go to the Page menu, and click on "convert to master page," 
> give it a name, and click okay. Then I click on the edit menu and go 
> to Master Pages, and, sure enough, there it is, right in there with 
> Normal. So I get the next template, click on convert to master page, 
> give it a name and click okay. When I go to edit/master pages, I find 
> the new master page in place, but the previous one is gone.
>    Why is this happening?  Is "convert to master page" not a 
> legitimate way to make a master page?
It may be that you need to rename this new master page to make sure the 
next one doesn't overwrite it.

Greg




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