[scribus] Problem with unlinking pages.

John Culleton John at wexfordpress.com
Sun Mar 1 19:06:02 UTC 2015


On Sun, 1 Mar 2015 19:46:28 +0100
Craig Bradney <cbradney at scribus.info> wrote:

> 
> > On 01 Mar 2015, at 19:42, Gregory Pittman
> > <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On 03/01/2015 08:39 AM, John Culleton wrote:
> >> I broke my current project up into 50 page
> >> segments and imported a block of text into
> >> each. After I dispersed the text into the
> >> proper pages via linking I want to unlink
> >> the pages to make editing go faster. But
> >> then all the text is attributed to the first
> >> page. I have inserted frame breaks at the
> >> end of each page but that doesn't help with
> >> the unlinking problem.
> >> 
> >> Any hints?
> >> 
> > I guess I would begin at the end. Work your
> > way backwards, by unlinking at some sensible
> > point, such as end of a chapter or section,
> > then paste and eliminate up to the correct
> > point. 50+ pages of text uninterrupted by
> > some sort of divisions is a bit mind-numbing
> > anyway.
> > 
> > Breaking up the project to smaller chunks
> > also allows you to see and deal with widows
> > and orphans problems without creating
> > cascading problems downstream.
> > 
> > Greg
> > 
> 
> 
> If its 1.5.0.svn you are using, then use the
> unlink frames with text cut option, frame by
> frame, but your text stays as it was, just the
> links are brokenÎ.
> 
> Craig
> 

Super. Under what menu or keyboard combo do I
find  that option? Is it U? 

John Culleton
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