[scribus] Question

[Gregory Pittman]

On 03/19/2015 05:10 AM, Craig Bradney wrote:
> 
>> On 19 Mar 2015, at 09:49, JLuc <jluc at no-log.org> wrote:
>>
>> Here my go :
>>
>> If you create all the pages of your document, all empty,
>> and then create your frames on the first left and right page,
>> then you can select both of them and multiple-duplicate them
>> on all the page in a single operation.
>> Specify a x move of 0
>> and a y move totalling page height + vertical space displayed between pages.
>> (vertical space displayed between pages being set in the document preferences).
>>
>>
>> Message to the devs : http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=10557 is a request
>> to make this common action more UI-easy
>>
>>
> 
> I kind of get that.. but why wouldn’t you use the already existing functionality of Item-> Create Item and create the items over the pages all in one go?
> 

In this use case, the problem with Create Item is that you can't do odd
or even pages. Either you do all, or you have enter a list of the pages
to put them on. Plus you also would then have to set Text Flows one by one.

Greg