On Monday 07 March 2005 06:48, Wesley Allen wrote: > Louis Desjardins wrote: > >> HI guys, > >> In my brief forays into 1.3cvs (which looks beautiful, btw), I > >> came accross a feature request... > >> > >> When I insert a graphic that I want to span two pages, it splits > >> the graphic at edge of the page. Is there any way to get it to split > >> elements at the margin guides instead? > > > > Hi Wes, > > > > I'm not sure you'll like this procedure - you tell me - but here is > > how I'd do it. BTW I don't have 1.3 yet. > > > > Make your graphic run over the spread and once you're satisfied, > > duplicate this very frame exactly on top of the other, so, zero, zero > > in the X Y fields using Multiple duplicate and 1 for that many frame > > (not frames!). (Parenthesis: I've always found strange that setting > > duplicating values was not possible unless you use the Multiple > > duplicate... even when you really need to dupe once... End of > > parenthesis) Then, reduce the width of the top frame to cover only the > > part you want on one page. Then select the bottom one and do the same > > for the opposite page. Basically, you'll end up with a complete > > graphic in 2 separate frames. Using the same technique, you could also > > push away the two frames from the middle to take care of binding > > issues. Hope the explanation is clear enough! > > Nice work-around; I'll have to try it! > > Wes
Yep, thats the old 1.2 method that works very well, but not so well for text frames. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20050306/dee426a1/attachment.pgp
