Alexander Roberts wrote: > I'm probably/hopefully missing something extremely obvious here: > I'm making a ~160 page yearbook for our school, so ~100 pages are all > identical in layout, e.g. text box with 2 colums and a second text box > for the title. > So, i've set up a template for this, on the basis that i'll be able to > add 100 pages to the document based on this template, then just get-text > for each page. > The problem is I can't seem to select the text box that is part of the > template. > > Is this because i'm doing something wrong, or you can't do that in scribus > > Thanks, > Alex
Unfortunately, templates are not editable. You might have better luck with a scriptable "template" as I think has been recently discussed. (I didn't follow the thread too closely, but I think it is the same concept as I used to implement repetitive design elements.) My project was a booklet highlighting each missionary our church supports. Each page was the same layout. First, I designed the page in scribus -- text box sizes, paragraph styles, how the information would be laid out. There were some design elements that would not be edited -- a shaded gradient at the top of the page, some lines -- which I put in true template. For the other elements -- text boxes -- I created a script to recreate them. I created enough pages for the booklet and assigned the true templae. Then I ran the script. The script went to each page, created 5 text boxes, created columns as needed, and linked the text boxes. Each box was given a unique name. My scribus version is 1.2 from fink (on Mac OS 10.2.8) so I didn't have access to scripter commands to assign paragraph styles to text boxes. After creating the "templates," I went to each page, did "Get Text" from the top text box, went into the Story Editor, manually assigned paragraph styles (which I set up beforehand), and voila. The text for each missionary was in a separate text file almost like a simple database -- each line was for a specific piece of data (address, e-mail, country of ministry, etc.) If a piece of data wasn't available, the line was blank. This allowed the text boxes to be linked and let the text flow through them. If I were more savvy in Python, I might have been able to read the directory of missionary files and do "Get Text" from the script as well, but I decided to do it manually instead. I tend to find overly complicated ways of doing things, so there might be a better way to have done this. It worked for me and saved me a lot of time. I've attached the script as an example. It assumes a page size of 7" wide x 8.5" high (half a sheet of legal paper). -- Carol Kankelborg cckborg1 at kankelborg.net -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: missionframes.py Url: http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20050115/db525b92/attachment.ksh
