<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Mar 27, 2012, at 9:06 AM, a.l.e wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">yep, you have too many layers in your file... way too granular...<br></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>OK..I can pare them down...I'm used to using lots of layers IMHO, not too many, in InDesign without issue.. Usually, I get to a point where I'm settled enough in the design to combine and eliminate</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><br>but, no, this is not the cause of the problem you're facing.<br>the "disappearing text" related to the fact that scribus wrongly considers master pages as superposed layers.<br></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Ah..ok... Strange...that is how it felt as I was seeing the problem..I knew that no other elements were encroaching on that text box...I'll send that in as a bug to the link you gave. Thank you</div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><br>you're welcome to fill a but for it :-)</span></blockquote></div><br><div>What does that mean? ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>a.l.e. - thank you for your help and clarification on this.</div><div><br></div><div>dcat</div></body></html>