On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 11:18:12PM +0200, PLinnell wrote: > On Tuesday 03 May 2005 22:44, Phil Hughes wrote: > > I used to think I was the only one confused here but I now know > > there are at least three of us. So, let me just ask here. I have a > > feeling the answer is something that will unconfuse a lot of > > people. > > > > We are working on a magazine layout. In terms of what I remember > > from Quark (haven't used it in over 10 years) you have: > > * Document template > > * Master pages > > It sounds like Scribus has these capabilities but, today, they are > > both called templates. But, the more I play the less I understand. > > So, let me define what I want to do. I am guessing a one-paragraph > > answer will get me pointed in the right direction. > > > > The magazine has some document-wide characteristics such as page > > size, margines, page numbers and other standard footer information. > > That, to me, sounds like document template info. > > > > Within the magazine, there are various sections. For sake of > > argument, let's call them news, and entertainment. Within each of > > those sections you have four or more types of pages: > > * First page of the section (this is also the first page of the > > first article but differs because of a bigger section heading). * > > First page of subsequent articles. > > * Last page of an article (slightly different column layout to > > add an author bio). > > * Intermediate article pages (just text frames with no space for > > a special header or anything). There could be 2-column and > > 3-column versions. > > > > I would call these master pages--that is four or so per section > > type times the number of sections. > > > > Assuming I am not wacko in thinking that is the way to do > > something, how do you really make such a document? With New From > > template and save as template in the File menu, apply template in > > the Page menu, Templates in the Edit menu and probably some other > > stuff, I am quite confused. > > > > Thanks. > > Hi, > > In Scribus terms: > > Page Template = Master Page = a static page background > > To add these to a page or set of pages you "apply" them. You can also > create/delete new pages and re-order them via the Pages Palette with > drag and drop. You can also use the Page Palette to directly navigate > within a doc. > > Note you cannot directly edit the items which are in a page template > on the canvas, only when edit the Page Template directly. > > Document Templates are documents pre-populated with whatever arbitrary > object you wish. These objects are fully editable on the canvas. The > only difference between a regular document and a document template is > there is an accompanying xml file which gives the description info > for the file. > > You might want to download the extra templates if you have not an > experiment with them. > > Hope that helps, > Peter
Almost. :-) I am still confused with the page templates. I see normal as my choice and it seems I can clone it, append to it (which seems to do nothing) and delete it. But, I then just see normal or some derivitive as the choice. I feel like I am doing something very simple wrong here as the concepts fit fine and now that I have the distinction I feel like there is very little missing. Thanks. -- Phil Hughes, fyl at a42.com Phone: 505-713-5675 Aptdo. Postal 201, Esteli, Esteli, NICARAGUA
