<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 8:59 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; ">i don't know if there is a hard limit, but too many layers are hard to manage...<br><br>ciao<br>a.l.e</span></blockquote></div><br><div>true dat... but relative to your comment about the file I posed with the disappearing Master page text, I'm wondering if I exceeded Scribus' actual ability to handle layers.</div><div><br></div><div>I realized just a minute ago that my files had more layers than were actually used. This is because I stripped the document down to a minimum of elements: back ground and type. I left the other layers in place, tho empty on my uploaded file.</div><div><br></div><div>Is this what you're referring to? Several layers with nothing in them?</div><div><br></div><div>dcat</div></body></html>