[scribus] text areas and master pages

[Gregory Pittman]

On 02/16/2012 04:49 AM, ale rimoldi wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:37:15 +0100
> JLuc<jluc at no-log.org>  wrote:
>
>> Le 16/02/2012 08:25, ale rimoldi a écrit :
>>> hi greg,
>>>
>>>> On 02/15/2012 12:47 PM, A Catonné / Oniris Productions wrote:
>>>>> Thanks for answer
>>>>> It's mean finally you have to paste text areas on every pages.
>>>>> It' not very simple if you have a lot of pages in your document,
>>>>> isn't it ?
>>>>
>>>> I've submitted something that creates the ability to do a selective
>>>> copy and paste function to Scripter.
>>>>
>>>> The idea would be that you could run a script which pastes a
>>>> selected item to all, odd, even, or specific pages in a document.
>>>> In essence it creates something like an editable Master Page item
>>>> function.
>>>>
>>>> I'm waiting on a response, but I may just go ahead a create a wiki
>>>> page that explains how to modify Scribus to use this.
>>>
>>> as i probably wrote, it would be nice if you could explain how to
>>> modify the "insert>   frames" dialog to do this...
>>>
>>> i don't think that we need a new dialog for this and i believe that
>>> almost all of the functions needed to multiple paste on several
>>> pages are already in "insert>   frames"...
>>
>> Or maybe through an enhanced "Item (object)>  Multiple copy
>> (duplicate)" option ?
>
> yes maybe, but i have the feeling that you need many more changes to
> multiple duplicate to get to the same result, while the "insert>
> frames" dialog can simply be enhanced by a "use selected item as a
> base" option (with some more features :-).
>

What I was trying to do was to allow for pasting a frame with contents 
or other objects on multiple pages. It seems to me this would work best 
as a new "Multiple Paste" function, or perhaps from the Scrapbook, with 
a dialog to allow placing a Scrapbook item on multiple pages at one go.

The modified Scripter commands that I made work, but it does seem this 
should be something on the main screen.

Greg