[scribus] Is there a way to update page numbers in text?

Christoph Schäfer christoph-schaefer at gmx.de
Sun May 3 02:13:41 CEST 2009


Am Sonntag, 3. Mai 2009 00:14:31 schrieb Ryan Grace:
> Hello,
>
> Not sure if this list is active or not, but I'm going to post my question
> and see.
>
> I'm wondering if there's a way in Scribus 1.3.3 to have page numbers listed
> in the document's body update when content is moved to a different page.
>
> For example, I'm putting together a guide of sorts.  It will be a listing
> of businesses with one business per page.  On each business's page will
> also be listed the 5 nearest businesses that are listed on other pages in
> the same book.  So I want to be able for each of the businesses in the
> "nearest neighbors" listing to list the page number in the guide that that
> business's listing is on.
>
> However, the page numbers are not set in stone yet as I put it together and
> may change.  So I'm wondering if there's a way to insert a pointer to a
> page in the text that will update when the number of the page it points to
> changes.  That would save me from having to go back and update each page by
> hand with the new page numbers when one business's page number changes.
>

Unfortunately you have to do this by hand for the time being.

Cheers

Christoph




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