[scribus] unlinking text frames not always responding

[Craig Bradney]

> On 5 May 2017, at 14:03, ZASKE Martin <zm at revue-gugu.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I am making a real book of some 200+ pages with plenty line drawings
> with the bleeding edge Scribus.
> 
> 
> My normal work flow would be this:
> 
> - create a "new" empty document and select A5 portrait, folded
> - define all margins and all bleeds
> 
> - ask for 300 pages (just to be safe, delete later what is not needed)
> - ask for automatic text-frames
> 
> (later tweak the colour profiles, PDF settings, baseline-grid, default
> text style etc)
> 
> 
> It is all working nicely so far, with my Scribus 1.5.3svn from April,
> except this detail:
> 
> I get my 300 pages and my 300 linked text frames automatically created.
> So far so good. (My computer has no problems with RAM or power, is
> responding instantly.)
> 
> Now for the frontal matter, copyright information etc. I want to un-link
> the first four pages. They will have a different master-page and
> different styles.
> 
> I select a text frame and click the un-link icon or I hit "U". On some
> text frames it works (and the arrow goes away). And on some text-frames
> (mainly right-hand-side pages) the un-linking does not work, the arrow
> stays and when I check with the story-editor the text frames are still
> linked.
> 
> 
> My workaround is that I can insert 4 fresh pages via the menu; but that
> way I do not get any text-frames. I am not stuck but I believe linked
> text-frames are such an important feature that the un-linking should
> also work properly.
> 
> I suspect that the text-frame-linking is still somewhat buggy, like in
> many versions up to 1.5.2. And now is maybe a good moment to have a look
> at it.
> 
> Or am I missing something? I have to mention that my 300 text frames are
> all still empty, when I try to unlink each of the first four. Is this
> forbidden?
> 
> 
> 
> I have experimented some and have found that if I go via the menu,
> "item" > "Text frame links" > "Unlink Text frames and cut text" then the
> unlinking works every time (right-hand-side pages and left-hand-side
> pages) and the arrow goes away immediately. So from my perspective, this
> might confirm that the "normal" unlinking is buggy. And not every user
> wants to cut the text...
> 
> Can other users reproduce this?
> 
> 
> greetings,
> 
> Martin
> 

I think for me, the biggest issue her his the use of automatic text frames. I know there will be code that does not deal with automatic text frames that well. My suggestion would be to just create your pages, then use Insert->Frame and select the right options.

thanks
Craig