On Thursday 24 March 2005 02:18, John Pedersen wrote: > I'm new to Scribus, and much of it is impressive, but some of it is a > mystery to me. > > I create a template, thus: start with a plain, standard page, add some > guides, then "Save as template" (giving it a name, specifying that is > should live in the "Own Templates" group, etc) > > Now, after this, if I begin a brand new document "New from template", > there is my template--WONDERFUL! > > However, if I take a plain page and try "Apply templates" the only > choice of template is "Normal" (which is not even an official > template; at least it's not one of the choices when you use "New from > template") > > In the same way, when you try "Edit templates", the only choice is > "Normal". > > Same thing, if you try to insert page, and you only have a choice of > "Normal". > > Obviously I must be missing something, and I'm sure I'll feel > incredibly stupid when somebody tells me....but I give up! Are there > two separate mystery vaults for the templates?
Yes There are page templates and document templates. File->New from and Save to Template access document templates Edit Template and the Page Palette access page templates. Page templates will be renamed in 1.3 to be called master pages. 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/20050324/3b6e5beb/attachment.pgp
